Learn Through Quotations

“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.”

“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”

“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.”

“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“It's a man's world, and you men can have it.”

“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”

“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.”

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. ”

“The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.”

“All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in War.”

“Men are no more immune from emotions than women, we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, 'feminine' ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.”

“A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.”

“The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.”

“The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.”

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

“Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.”