Benjamin Spock Quotes

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

Trust, Yourself

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock

Happiness, Makes, Fulfilled

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock

Parenting, Power, Parents

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin Spock

Parenting, Good, Best

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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Mom, Age, Mother

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

Time, Learning, Person

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

Marriage, Woman, Joy

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

Family, God, Today

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock

Rude, Idea, Police

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
Benjamin Spock

Important, Confidence, Feeling

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock

Good, Best, Children

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?
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War, Happy, Children

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
Benjamin Spock

Women, Become, Encouraged

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

Anger, Angry, Children

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Benjamin Spock

War, Proud, Babies

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.
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War, Against, Steal

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
Benjamin Spock

Win, Nation, Vietnam

You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 2, 1903

Died: March 15, 1998

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