More - Benjamin Spock Quotes

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

 American Scientist Babies

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse

Benjamin Spock

 

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock

 American Scientist Children

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable

Benjamin Spock

 

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation

Benjamin Spock

 Vietnam

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all

Benjamin Spock

 Children

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence

Benjamin Spock

 Destiny

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be

Benjamin Spock

 Anger

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal

Benjamin Spock

 Class

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled

Benjamin Spock

 Happiness