In ancient shadows and twilights
Where childhood had strayed,
The world’s great sorrows were born
And its heroes were made.
In the lost boyhood of Judas
Christ was betrayed. George William Russell, 1867-1935, Irish poet & essayist
Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer. Inscription above Old Bailey
You may house their bodies but not their souls. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet: ‘On Children’, 1923
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Dora Russell, Hypatia, 1925
For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which attains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable system. Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory & Practice
He [Aleister Crowley] had so many Masonic degrees he could fill up five pages of a book with them. This guy was probably the most highest-honoured Mason in the world. He styled himself the Wickedest Man in the World. He believed himself to be the Great Beast. And he changed his name to Aleister Crowley so it would add up in both English, Hebrew and Greek Kabbalah as 666. In 1904 Crowley had a communication with an extra-terrestrial being named Ewas and this being through his wife a kind of channelling type of operation, brought forth a book called The Book of Law ... Crowley proclaimed the end of Christianity and the start of Crowlianity. Crowley taught that the way you could live for ever was by vampiring little children sexually. And he personally bragged of having slaughtered one hundred and fifty male children in one year. This is why he was called the wickedest man in the world. Bill Schnoebelen
fear for the little ones, the innocents, who are already paying for our mistakes. There exists a great army of occupationally orphaned children. They are attending government-controlled daycare centres. And latch-key kids are running wild in the streets. And the lopsided, emotionally wounded children of single welfare mothers, born only for the sake of more money on the monthly check. Open your eyes and look at them, for they are the future. In them I see the sure and certain destruction of this once-proud nation. In their vacant eyes I see the death of Freedom. They carry with them a great emptiness – and someone will surely pay a great price for their suffering. Bill Cooper
The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood. Marquis de Sade, Juliette, 1797
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need. Marquis de Sade
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance. Franklin P Jones
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field or rye and all … I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye. J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
You lost your ability for doing things in childhood … It all began with your inability to put on your socks and ended by your inability to live. Ivan Goncharov, 1812-91, Oblomov
Little children
Will be taken
From the arms
Of their mothers
And thrown to
The ground
And then torn to pieces. Leonardo da Vinci
Run for your lives, children! We’re all going to die! The Catherine Tate Show s2e1, BBC 2005
Be strong, my darlings, because there’s something else you should know. Something much worse. This person the agency is sending us. She’s from the north! Newcastle, I’m told. But it could be as far as Sun-der-land. The Catherine Tate Show s2e2, Aga Saga Woman
Too like the sire for ever being good.
First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl –
A sight to vex the father’s soul withal.
Get me a ladder. Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
Shall I endure this monstrous villainy? William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus V i 50-53, Lucius to Aaron
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form:
Then have I reason to be fond of grief. William Shakespeare, King John III iv 93
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice II ii 72-73, Lancelot to Gobbo
For ’tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world. William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor II ii 124-126, Mistress Quickly to Sir John
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. William Shakespeare, As You Like It II vii 143
’Tis fools such as you
That makes the world full of ill-favoured children. ibid. III v 54-55, Rosalind
Into her womb convey sterility.
Dry up in her the organs of increase,
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her. If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen, that it may live
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her.
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
Turn all her mother’s pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt, that she may feel –
That she may feel
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I iv @271, Lear
Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,
That it doth hate what gets it. ibid. III iv 133-134, Gloucester
Bring forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I vii 72-74, Macbeth
By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;
And so in spite of death thou dost survive,
In that thy likeness still is left alive. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
A Maryland couple have raised a Cabbage Patch doll as their only son for 19 years. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
Bush also successfully rammed through the Orwellian-named New Freedom Initiative. This forces every child in America from age five to eighteen to be psychologically tested twice a year. Whether you’re home-schooled, private schooled or public schooled. The guidelines for mental illness were written by a consortium of drug companies. And in their own internal documentation they brag they will go from 15% of children on psychotropic drugs and Ritalin to over 50% ... This is the type of nightmare only Josef Stalin could dream of. Alex Jones, Martial Law 9/11: The Rise of the Police State, 2005
Glenn Beck must be desperate to keep right-wing religious views alive far into the future because during his radio show on Wednesday, the conservative talker actually advocated for parents to physically bully their kids until they submit to Christianity.
Glenn Beck attempted to convince parents to bully their children until they accept God.
Right Wing Watch reports that Beck attempted to convince his listeners that they need to take action now to force their kids to believe that it’s God that gives them their rights. To achieve this goal, Beck suggests parents physically abuse them. Addicting Info online article 10th October 2013, ‘Glenn Beck Says Parents Should Physically Abuse Their Kids Until They Believe in God’
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It’s presumptive and abusive to label a child with the religion of its parents. Richard Dawkins v Alister McGrath, Oxford Literary Festival 2007
What I said was that teaching children that they will roast in Hell could under some circumstances be worse than physical abuse, in the sense that it may last longer. Richard Dawkins, In Confidence 2010