Children Quote by Quentin Crisp

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have…

— George Santayana

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an…

— Jose Marti

“The fact is that an unscrupulous tyrant mobilizes the suppressed fears and anxieties of those who were beaten as children but have never been…

— Alice Miller

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the…

— Confucius

“Hippocrates asked the reason why he laughed. He told him, at the vanities and the fopperies of the time, to see men so empty…

— Robert Burton

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

“recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from “good families.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“As a rule, beaten, tormented, and humiliated children who have never received support from a helping witness later develop a high degree of tolerance…

— Alice Miller

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and…

— Baron D'Holbach

“At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche