Quotes by Hayakawa, S. I.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, >>

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

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even >>

Quotations about Society

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves abo >>

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social bei >>

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do wh >>

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

Hayakawa, S. I.