Bertrand Russell Parent Quotations

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

Choose your parents wisely.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.