Benign Neglect Quotes

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

My policy is to have no policy.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

A wise and salutary neglect

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Dynamic benign neglect.

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.