Frightened Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them…

— Bob Keeshan

“You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their…

— Lars Iyer

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused…

— Paul Begala

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will feel compelled…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

— Hanif Kureishi

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from…

— Tom Robbins

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

— Jet Black

Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.

— Iain Stirling

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in…

— Steven Pinker

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

— Barack Obama