What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making.
—Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine
More quotations tagged with “youth”
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
—Bill Watterson
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
—Jim Bishop
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
—George Bernard Shaw
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
—Randall Jarrell
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
—Herbert Henry Asquith
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