Author: Benjamin Spock

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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