Children Quote by Camille Paglia

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

— Sigmund Freud

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of…

— Irene Hunt

Children are under a relentless assault by all the forces of evil, and they are defenseless. And we have a society and a culture…

— John MacArthur

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their…

— Maria Montessori

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point…

— Madeleine L'Engle

One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no…

— Virginia Woolf

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

— Toni Morrison

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive…

— Delia Ephron

“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in our family…

— Judith Warner

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

— Dennis Potter

I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only…

— Michael Cunningham