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Simeon Strunsky Quotes

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky
People, Democracy, Library

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Simeon Strunsky
Men, Doors, Waiting

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Simeon Strunsky
Family, Children, Dining

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Simeon Strunsky
Heart, Democracy, Statistics
Topics of the Times November 30, 1944

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Simeon Strunsky
Daughter, Mother, Father

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Simeon Strunsky
New York, Mountain, United States

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky
Knowledge, Fame, Remarks
No Mean City ch. 38 (1944)

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