#w

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

#confidence #destiny #drive #feeling #gets

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? ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#bring #cause #children #happy #healthy

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

— Benjamin Spock

#nation #vietnam #will #win

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#begins #dignity #give #god #i

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#people #percent #stability #starving #want

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god