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“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

#Men #Giving #Prejudice
“It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Character #Long #Three
“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

#Life #Teacher #Teaching
“The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Character #Men #Ideas
“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Intelligent #Earth #Want
“The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Heartbroken #Ambition #Home
“So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Men #Long #May
“The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Weapons #Intellect #Humans
“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Enemy #Buying #Reform
“We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Hands #Age #Uniforms
“Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Teacher #Teaching #Home
“The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Men #Thinking #Years
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Music #Real #Men
“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. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Growing Up #Selfish #War
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Government #Outcomes #Virtue

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