Dissertation Quotes by Stuart Chase

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

— Stuart Chase

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

— Stuart Chase

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

— Stuart Chase

I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may…

— Stuart Chase

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light…

— Stuart Chase

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

— Stuart Chase

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow…

— Stuart Chase

Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their…

— Stuart Chase

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

— Stuart Chase

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

— Stuart Chase

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

— Stuart Chase

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly…

— Stuart Chase

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

— Stuart Chase

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

— Stuart Chase