Simeon Strunsky famous quotes

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#People #Library #Democracy

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#Men #Doors #Waiting

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#Family #Children #Tables

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#Knowledge

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#Daughter #Mother #Father

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#New York #Mountain #Desert

Statistics are the heart of democracy.
-- Simeon Strunsky

#Heart #Democracy #Statistics

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.