The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
BENJAMIN SPOCKDon’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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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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