“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.” MenWorldMayChildrenJobsOrderChanceCasesKnowingDoubtSacrificePossibilityCompetitionSakeChosenConfusionSuitsOperationsVulnerabilityUpbringingExclusionBleak Author:Anna Ford
“Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.” MayChildrenArtEffortSacrificeProducePeriodsDespairLuckRaising Children Author:Michael Kimmelman
“Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.” MenChildrenEndsSacrificeTaughtHumbleServantDespiseDreadPanic Book:Stories and Poems Source: Stories and Poems
“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.” WayFirstsChildrenPersonsSelfParentDoubtSacrificeDutyMoralityRelationStartingAffectionDevelopingGenerosityNo DoubtMutualTouchingSpontaneousDemonstrationConstraintsSelf SacrificeStarting PointPromptsChildren And Parents Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .” ChildrenHas BeensVisionSacrificeDemonSchemesTemptedAltars Author:Leonard Cohen