Albion Fellows Bacon famous quotes

If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Past #Cities #House

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Suffering Of Others

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Children #Lessons #Midst

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Sunshine #Shadow #Poor

...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Memories #Compassion #Curves

... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Mother #Mind #Majority

It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Running #Hurt #Children

One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Country #Children #Sunshine

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.
-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Generations #Environment #Produce

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.