American - Scientist | May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998
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
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
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