Children Quote by Erich Fromm

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

— Michel Foucault

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a…

— Annie Dillard

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

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous

“Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can…

— Lee Thomas

“Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful…

— L.H. Cosway

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

— Veronica Roth

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go — the child's hand, or…

— Bobby Underwood

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

— Annie Dillard

“Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child’s deepest secrets.”

— Jo Nesbø