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Letter "A" » adults
«When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»
«The source of most human violence and suffering has been ahidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billionsof innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound,starved, raped, mutilated, battered and tortured by their parentsand other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippledadults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restagetheir early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.»
Author: Lloyd deMause
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«The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.»
«The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.»
Author: Robert Nozick
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
adults, capitalistic, consenting, Consenting Adults, Government regulation, market, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, regulation, regulations, the market
«Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.»
«Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, not for, responsible
«Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Adulthood,
Advertising,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
adults, Americans, but then, decent, eight, elected, electing, elects, hardworking, lousy, ninety, Ninety eight, percent, publicity
«Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adults, engaged, enterprises, pleasantly, queer, queerer, queerest, remind, talked
«The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
«The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, feeding, feed upon, forced, gifts, ignore, insist, learns, lessons, mental, mental process, natural process, tyrants
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