In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. — S. I. Hayakawa Age Copy Share Image
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. — S. I. Hayakawa Canals Copy Share Image
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. — S. I. Hayakawa Give Copy Share Image
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country. — S. I. Hayakawa Bilingualism Copy Share Image
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. — S. I. Hayakawa Language Copy Share Image
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S. I. Hayakawa Century Copy Share Image
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he… — S. I. Hayakawa Failure Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa American life Copy Share Image
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying… — S. I. Hayakawa Concepts Copy Share Image
The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it… — S. I. Hayakawa Abraham Copy Share Image
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society. — S. I. Hayakawa Instruments Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Books Copy Share Image
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S. I. Hayakawa Conditions Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Citizens Copy Share Image
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to… — S. I. Hayakawa Be good Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige,… — S. I. Hayakawa Community Copy Share Image
America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every… — S. I. Hayakawa America Copy Share Image
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every… — S. I. Hayakawa Alive Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not… — S. I. Hayakawa Amendment Copy Share Image
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It… — S. I. Hayakawa Books Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Bases Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Be prepared Copy Share Image
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for… — S. I. Hayakawa Animal Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Businessman Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully… — S. I. Hayakawa Actor Copy Share Image
English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. — S. I. Hayakawa American life Copy Share Image
Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's. — S. I. Hayakawa Agreement Copy Share Image
The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language. — S. I. Hayakawa Common Copy Share Image
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more… — S. I. Hayakawa Life Copy Share Image
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. — S. I. Hayakawa Education Copy Share Image
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something… — S. I. Hayakawa Chance Copy Share Image
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. — S. I. Hayakawa Arguing Copy Share Image
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a… — S. I. Hayakawa Culture Copy Share Image
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — S. I. Hayakawa Bigger Copy Share Image
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us. — S. I. Hayakawa Ability Copy Share Image
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