Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Interpretation
Toleration and liberty are essential for the success and stability of a society.
This quote emphasizes the importance of toleration and liberty as fundamental principles that support the functioning of a great republic. Frank Lloyd Wright suggests that for a society to thrive, its citizens must embrace and respect diverse perspectives and freedoms, as these elements foster unity and progress within the community.
In practice
During a speech about democracy, one could quote this to emphasize the values of freedom and acceptance.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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