“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.” — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
