Children Quote by William Cowper

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

— Augustus William Hare

Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are…

— John Parsons

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert

— Hannah More

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse…

— Democritus

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the…

— Katherine Dunn

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Camille Paglia

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

— Aeschylus

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I…

— Anthony Hopkins

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

— Alfred Adler

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud