“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveTwoBookMomentsYoungSexMoralBoysWrittenSubjectsInformationYouthCollegeMoralityBirdStonesBlameCuriosityProfitShelvesLecturesProstitution Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.” KindLastsValuesPoliticsSocialFamilyPovertyCrimeYouthBuildingCrisisBlameBreakdownDarwinismFamily ValuesSocial Darwinism Author:Stephanie Coontz
“...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.” PeopleFirstsWarHappensTruthAgeWonderPathFateYouthAdversityBlameWinterStormRageProvidenceSageEightyEighteenVicissitudes Book:DON JUAN Source: DON JUAN
“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.” MenGivingYearsWellsHeartMadeSoulHateYouthPraiseBlameIllUglyGentleReceivingDelightedDistaste Author:Plato
“Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.” StillsStatesFilmPoliticalDesireSocialNumbersYouthEternalHollywoodBlameNotionIncludingMythOddCradleMockeryPathologyEternal Youth Author:Anne Fontaine
“Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.” NeedsGivingShouldChildrenParentResponsibilityYouthTrainingEncouragementBlameCommandGuidanceProvokingRestraintWrathUnreasonableConsiderateBe ConsiderateReproof Author:David O. McKay
“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.” IfsWayHas BeensTwoFacesGirlKindnessYouthSweetMouthsBlameForgottenDearMysteriousEveningFallenFiftyYour FaceTwilightGatheringConcealedMeanness Author:James M. Barrie