Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. - S. I. Hayakawa
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
- S. I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. - S. I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country. - S. I. Hayakawa
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. - S. I. Hayakawa
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S. I. Hayakawa
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves … - S. I. Hayakawa
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves …
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. - S. I. Hayakawa
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see… - S. I. Hayakawa
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see…
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. - S. I. Hayakawa
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.
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