Benjamin Spock Quotes

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

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

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.

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

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

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.

It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States… I’m free to thwart and torment the authorities – that is to say, I can get out my hostilities – because I’m protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I’m doing is morally right. I’ve never been so relaxed. I’ve never been so happy.

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

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.

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

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

Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.