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In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. – Thomas Szasz

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. – Thomas Szasz

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What is a home without children? Quiet. – Henny Youngman

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Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. – Dr.SunWolf, 2012 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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