Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

There is a special place in hell for people who prey on children. I’ve yet to see a valid explanation, and I have no reason to doubt the victims' accounts.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.