Amos Oz Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Past, Two

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS, 2002.

• She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

  Amos Oz

  Strong, Children, Acceptance

  Amos Oz, Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange (2011). “Scenes from Village Life”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Grandparent, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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