Into the Dangerous World Quotes

“For some, the unborn child is sacred to a degree the teenager never attains.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“Inequality is catching.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“Children inherent principles; they do not set them.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“Comparisons with the past are of limited help: The ending of hanging won't make suicides in youth remand centres go away; the mortality, famine, rickets, scabies of Victorian slum children don't turn free school milk into a excessive luxury.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs

“This government has represented benefits as somehow shameful. The point about universal benefits is that they affirm the value of such social tasks as having children, rearing them, or caring for relatives; they make benefits themselves an expression of collective approval for the endeavour, not begrudged hand-outs, stigmatising the recipients as beggars and failures.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs