"We have the most prolonged adolescence in..." - Quote by Ralph Nader
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.
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“I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.”
“I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.”
“In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.”
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“A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.”
“Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.”
“The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”