"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."

Family, Children

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

Family, Honesty, Respect, Truth

"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

Family, Childhood, Sweetness

"From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Time, Problem, Business

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Family, Love, Father, Fear

Explore more quotes by Thomas Szasz

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Maturity

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."

God

"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."

Man

"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."

Life

"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."

Psychology

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

Wisdom

"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."

Nature

"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."

Psychology

"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."

Age

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

Man