Author: Benjamin Spock

Quotes

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

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

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

- 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

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

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

- 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

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

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

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