It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons… — John Hersey

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John HerseyWriter · American · 1914 – 1993

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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. — H. L. Mencken
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. — John Hersey
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped. — John Hersey