Fatherhood Quote by Christopher Isherwood

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

— Jane Jacobs

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

— Anonymous

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience,…

— Anonymous

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure…

— Michael Leunig

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

— Leo Tolstoy

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been…

— Suzanne La Follette

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

— Washington Irving

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are…

— Kate Millett

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

— Pat Conroy

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

— Joseph Addison

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson