People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I’d say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood. Benjamin Spock Read Quote
