Adolescence Quote by Barry D. Adam

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without being seen…

— Laurent Binet

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and…

— Camille Paglia

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long…

— Terri E Apter

The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not…

— Alfred Kinsey

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become…

— Mary Pipher

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks.…

— Roman Payne

“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton