Agnes Meyer Driscoll famous quotes

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Thinking #Democracy #Forgotten

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Home #Parent #Facts

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Achieve #Absolute Truth #Probability

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Truth #Thoughtful #Thinking

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Stress #Creative #Tension

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Childhood #Care #Individual

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Roots #People #Fortunate

The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Children #Chaos #Victim

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Reasons get forgotten.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.