Children Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the…

— Elinor Smith

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early…

— John Lubbock

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

— James A. Baldwin

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

— Daniel Berrigan

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false…

— Charles Fourier

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

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

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of…

— Agnes Moorehead

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr