"Persecution is the first law of society because……" — Howard Mumford Jones
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."
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Howard Mumford Jones
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8 Quotes by Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones has 8 quotes on this site.
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Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is…
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
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Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except…
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies…
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Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary…
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was…
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It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
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