Children Quote by G. Stanley Hall

I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only…

— Michael Cunningham

The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage.…

— John Locke

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of…

— Irene Hunt

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

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A…

— John Bradshaw

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

— Camille Paglia

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

— Sigmund Freud

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

— Maurice Sendak

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had…

— Alice Munro