Edgar Friedenberg

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.

— Edgar Friedenberg

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after…

— Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

— Edgar Friedenberg

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

— Edgar Friedenberg

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

— Edgar Friedenberg

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

— Edgar Friedenberg

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on…

— Edgar Friedenberg

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it…

— Edgar Friedenberg

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

— Edgar Friedenberg

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk…

— Edgar Friedenberg

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

— Edgar Friedenberg

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are…

— Edgar Friedenberg