A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
- John Jay Chapman
New, Newspaper, Represents, Ratio
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
- John Jay Chapman
Mankind, Why, Which, Armchair
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
- John Jay Chapman
Someone, Which, Condemns, Welcomes
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 and a craving in the teacher himself.
- John Jay Chapman
Gift, Will, Craving, Peculiar
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 in The Machine that governs us.
- John Jay Chapman
Reason, See, Himself, Governs
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
- John Jay Chapman
Politics, Give, Everybody, Social Life
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
- John Jay Chapman
Politics, Behind, Always, Twenty
Too much agreement kills the chat.
- John Jay Chapman
Too Much, Agreement, Too, Chat
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
- John Jay Chapman
Government, Virtue, Private, Outcome
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
- John Jay Chapman
Own, Wickedness, Too, Contemplation
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 sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
- John Jay Chapman
Worry, Save, Catching, Wonder
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.
- John Jay Chapman
Love, Will, Iniquity, Soft
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
- John Jay Chapman
Deep, Hours, Characters, Half Hours
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
- John Jay Chapman
Unity, Politics, Hatred, Organized
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
- John Jay Chapman
Reason, Beneath, Grows, Yoke
All progress is experimental.
- John Jay Chapman
Progress, Experimental
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