Logo
Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school c

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

Other quotes by S.I. Hayakawa

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

Category:
Failure
Author
S.I. Hayakawa
Read Quote

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

Category:
Justice & Law
Author
S.I. Hayakawa
Read Quote

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

Category:
Conformity
Author
S.I. Hayakawa
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Patriotism
category

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. – Francis John McConnell

Category:
Patriotism

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Patriotism

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. – Bill Kristol

Category:
Patriotism

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. – George J. Mitchell

Category:
Patriotism

Random Quotes

Companies shouldnt use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. – Jon Johansen

Category:
legal

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Category:
Weakness

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is lifes just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. – Kevin Rudd

Category:
Anger

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne

Category:
Nature