Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWithout freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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