Benjamin Spock Quotes - Page 2

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• I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

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  Spiritual, Realization, Problem

  Associated Press interview, 1992.

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

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  Be Encouraged, Disagreeable

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• The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

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  Strong, Long, People

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• Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

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  Children, Opportunity, Parent

  Benjamin Spock (1994). “A better world for our children: rebuilding American family values”, Natl Pr Books

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• Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Sex

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.

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  Party, Thinking, People

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• A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

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  Attitude, Father, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• It's not the words but the music that counts.

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  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Baby, Children, Learning

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• Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

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  Jobs, Children, Perfect

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

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  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

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  Love, Marriage, Husband

  "Older & Wiser". Book edited by G. B. Dianda and B. J. Hofmayer, 1995.

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• 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.

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  War, Korea, Vietnam

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• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

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  Class, Ideas, Racism

  "Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior". Book by Benjamin Spock, p. 103, 1970.

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• Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.

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  Teacher, Children, Mean

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

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• How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.

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  Baby, Diapers, Size

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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• I really learned it all from mothers.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother

  "TIME" Magazine, April 8, 1985.

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• Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

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  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

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  Prayer, People, Parent

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• Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.

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  Organization, America, Political

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• Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

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  Children, Husband, Home

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• Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

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  Girl, Zoos, Father

  Benjamin Spock (1956). “The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care”

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

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  Baby, War, Vietnam

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• This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.

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  Country, Should Have, People

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• I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

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  Women, Trying, Occupation

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