Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

If you're around the system any length of time, it becomes obvious you have to attack the problem at its root and get to 7- and 8-year old kids.

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Let all children come unto me.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.