E. Digby Baltzell quotes

“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”
-- E. Digby Baltzell

Source : E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge

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“The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.”
-- E. Digby Baltzell

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.”

“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”

“I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.”

Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

“Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.”

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin

“If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.”