Author: Benjamin Spock

Quotes

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

- 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

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

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

- Benjamin Spock

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.

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.

- Benjamin Spock

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

- 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

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

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

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

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