No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still.
Children Quotes
We are drowning our youngsters in violence, cynicism and sadism piped into the living room and even the nursery. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn’t slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
All who doubted or denied would be lost. To live a moral and honest life – to keep your contracts, to take care of wife and child – to make a happy home – to be a good citizen, a patriot, a just and thoughtful man, was simply a respectable way of going to hell. […]
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger because we give them no choice about it.
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
Childhood is the work of miracle and wonders; as if creation rose, bathed in light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
What children hear at home soon flies abroad.
When an order is given to someone under hypnosis that he do something at a certain time after he is brought back to consciousness he will do his best to conform to the order however absurd it might be. If he is prevented from fulfilling the order, he will have stirrings of acute guilt and […]
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can – and must – be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect […]
