Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants. . . Life has become impossible.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.
Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.
Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.
Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.
We value men more than women. . . straight love more than gay love. . . white skin more than black skin. . . and adults more than adolescents.
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.