Children Quote by Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

— Socrates

“We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful…

— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea 3800 B.C. inscription found on an ancient tablet in a Constantinople meseu

“Children hated generously, capriciously.”

— Ian McEwan

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which…

— Emil M. Cioran

“But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman…

— Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich

“Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time”

— Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“We can't force a child to learn but we can feed his hunger.”

— Ted Agon

“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.”

— William Kamkwamba

“Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding,…

— Jim Butcher

“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”

— Asa Don Brown