Nurturant Quotes

#1. In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2 - helping).

George Lakoff

#2. Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

James Q. Wilson

#3. Private enterprise and private life depend on nurturant morality, but so does freedom in American life. Freedom is what public resources provide - freedom in a way that we take for granted but that needs to be brought out in the open.

George Lakoff

#4. Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.

Steven Pinker

#5. Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Camille Paglia

#6. On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.

Lucas Klauss

#7. Youth is wholly experimental.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.

Paul Hoffman

#9. It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#10. The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

Nick Dear

#11. The world isn't as supposed as the world is supposed to be.

Arunabh Das