Quotes About Correction

But it is far more important to see the difference between correction that is helpful and condemnation that is dismissive and, therefore, destroys.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The advantage of time/space is that of the fluidity of the grand overview. The advantage of space/time is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances

because I want to discover where, precisely, it may be wrong and, if possible, to repair the defect.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

All punishment in itself is evil.

All the social ills that law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to learn and grow.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has at least a hundred different manifestations in both humans and vampires. Shane sorts. Regina counts. Spencer cleans. Noah watches where and how he walks, aligning his feet with the pattern of the carpet or grains of hardwood. Monroe and I share an obsession with words, rearranging the letters on signs or parsing definitions (he's learned to do it all in his head, while I often blurt out a grammatical correction in a rude and embarrassing way).

it is a thing much more worthy of admiration and praise to receive admonition meekly, than to admonish a transgressor boldly.

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Unfettered markets eventually get out of whack.

In a bubble, eventually people start saying, 'Wait a minute... these prices are way too high! What is anyone buying anymore? What could they possibly be thinking?' And then there's a correction and a bursting.

I will not ever change my principles. I will not do it. We have a 'how.' This is the most important thing we have - the 'how' we do things. Our style, our ideas, our principles with our mistakes that we have to correct.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

Prison works.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.