Children Quote by Christine Leunens

“Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a…

— Susan Neiman

“Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The Chinese Communists…

— Wess Stafford

“Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for us, ought…

— Roger Scruton

“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith…

— Alfred de Vigny

“What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.”

— Dale McGowan

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and…

— Joan Baez

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

— Jonathan Haidt