Quotes by Hayakawa, S. I.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguin >>

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort o >>

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more >>

Quotations about America

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as >>

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anythin >>

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an Americ >>

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

Hayakawa, S. I.