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Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, children

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about reason, faith, rightness

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about magic, sex, children

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children, world

Only 4 percent of adults say they will be satisfied if they never have children.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Quote by Molly Ivins about state, love

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about children

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, circumstances, people, rightness

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Quote by Tom Clancy about liberty

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in...

Quote by George Pataki about moral, children, activity

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.

Quote by Erich Fromm about society, education, children, age, olderness

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Quote by Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov about literature, children, contentment

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about childhood

As long as we are children the world conquers us for that later, as adults, we conquered the world.

Quote by Marius Torok about ability, world, children