Harry Allen Overstreet

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Time the devourer of everything.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that…

— Harry Allen Overstreet