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
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have… — S. I. Hayakawa Belief 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
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. — S. I. Hayakawa Age Copy Share Image
English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. — S. I. Hayakawa American life Copy Share Image
You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring… — S. I. Hayakawa Able Copy Share Image
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I… — S. I. Hayakawa Affair 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 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
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S. I. Hayakawa Century 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
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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
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 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
