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Parent Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
- I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is…
- There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents…
- Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
- Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
- If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held…
- There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence…
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- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu
- I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do… — Erykah Badu
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin