All John Jay Chapman Quotes
- People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the… Bank
- Good government is the outcome of private virtue. Good
- Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. Hatred
- Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them… America
- People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. Bone
- All progress is experimental. All
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. Comes Solely
- A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. Commerce
- The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. Always Twenty
- Too much agreement kills the chat. Agreement
- Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog… Action
- It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. Cesspool
- Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need… Alone
- I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. Condemns
- The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… Ambition
- So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects. All
- The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. Any
- It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for… Buying
- Attack another's rights and you destroy your own. Attack
- We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. Age