Mary McCarthy Quotes About Children
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The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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