What is the use
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
Benjamin Spock
People have said, you’ve
People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.” Benjamin Spock
To win in Vietnam,
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. Benjamin Spock
I love to dance
I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. Benjamin Spock
Perhaps a child who
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
It’s an ideal existence.
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States… I’m free to thwart and torment the authorities – that is to say, I can get out my hostilities – because I’m protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I’m doing is morally right. I’ve never been so … Read more
Every child senses, with
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
I was so afraid
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it. Benjamin Spock
I wanted to be
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly … Read more
I was proud of
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. Benjamin Spock