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Children Quotes by Erich Fromm
- What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First…
- Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
- The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in…
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only…
- Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of…
- The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
- The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must…
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in…
- Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon