Children Quotes

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.