“If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.”
Source: The Secret of Childhood (1936), Ch. 23
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Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952Related quotes

Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.
Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 137
Stigler (1975, p. 171) as cited in: Owen E.Hughes (2003) Public Management and Administration. p. 11
Source: The art of leadership (1935), p. 20; As cited in: Joseph Clarence Rost (1993) Leadership for the Twenty-first Century. p. 48.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 1.

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1854/mar/31/war-with-russia-the-queens-message in the House of Commons on the debate on war with Russia (31 March 1854).
1850s