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John Jay Chapman Quotes
«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.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| About:
Benevolence,
Gifts,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
benevolence, craving, implies, peculiar, The Teacher
«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.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| About:
People,
Worry
| Keywords:
bank, catching, catch cold, chocolate, drowning, dry, hot chocolate, muffin, muffins
«If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
commerce, do-nothing, masses, motions, raise, signaling, signals, sign language, vehicle
«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.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
cog, cogs, corruption, governs, machine, prejudice, The Machine
«If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
American politics, at present, blindness, candidate, Democratic Party, era, exhibit, lantern, lanterns, look to, New Era, quaint, Republican Party, slide, stand for, The Magic, tragic
«A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
commodity, gang, gangs, packing, political organization, thieves, transferable
«The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| About:
Politics