Author: Benjamin Spock

Quotes

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

- Benjamin Spock

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

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?

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?

- Benjamin Spock

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

- Benjamin Spock

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

- Benjamin Spock

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

- Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

- Benjamin Spock

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

- Benjamin Spock

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.

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.

- Benjamin Spock

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