Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
Benjamin SpockRead
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?
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses frustration about the futility of promoting child health in the face of war and violence.
Benjamin Spock's quote highlights the deep irony and sorrow he feels as a physician advocating for child health and happiness, only to witness the devastating consequences of war that threaten the lives of many children. It critiques the societal structures that allow for such violence and questions the purpose of health professionals' efforts when faced with such an ignoble cause.
Themes
HealthChildrenWarViolenceParentingSocietyPhysicians
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of peace in child welfare.
More from Benjamin Spock
All quotes →Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
Benjamin SpockRead
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
Benjamin SpockRead
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
Benjamin SpockRead
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
Benjamin SpockRead
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin SpockRead
Similar quotes
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Joseph CampbellRead
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.
H. L. MenckenRead
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will RogersRead
I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
Lupita Nyong'ORead
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt DisneyRead
Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
W. Edwards DemingRead