John Jay Chapman

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#earth #find #i #intelligent #opinions

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

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

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

Good government is the outcome of private virtue. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#good government #government #outcome #private #virtue

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#consists #dog #forget #hate #iniquity

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#organized #politics #unity

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#commerce #each #experiment #focus #intellect

All progress is experimental. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#progress