Corporal punishment

"He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a rod on him."

"A fools lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes."

"Spare the rod and spoil the child."

"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it from him."

"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."

"He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes."

"All the learnin’ my father ever paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and the alphabet at th’ other."

"A whip for a horse, a bridle for an ass, and a rod for a fools back."

"Ὃ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται."

"Judgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backs of fools."

"Aut disce, aut discede: manet sors tertia cædi."

"Somebody ought to make a historical study of—the relation between theology and corporal punishment in childhood. I have a theory that, wherever little boys and girls are systematically flagellated, the victims grow up to think of God as ‘Wholly Other’—isn’t that the fashionable argot in your part of the world? Wherever, on the contrary, children are brought up without being subject to physical violence, God is immanent. A people’s theology reflects the state of children’s bottoms. ... Look at the Hebrews—enthusiastic child-beaters. And so were all good Christians in the Age of Faith. Hence Jehovah, hence Original Sin and the infinitely offended Father of Roman and Protestant orthodoxy. ... Major premise: God is Wholly Other. Minor premise: man is totally depraved. Conclusion: Do to your childrens bottoms what was done to yours, what your Heavenly Father has been doing to the collective bottom of humanity ever since the Fall: whip, whip, whip!"