96 Quotes by Benjamin Spock

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.