Quotes by John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

American author

Lived from: 1862 - 1933

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 march 1862 Died: 4 november 1933

  • If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
  • The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

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  • Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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  • A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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  • All progress is experimental.
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  • Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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  • Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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  • I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
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  • If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
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  • It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
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  • People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
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  • Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
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  • The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
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  • There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
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  • Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
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  • You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Jay Chapman?

The two most famous quotes from John Jay Chapman are:

  • "Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."
  • "A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful."

When did John Jay Chapman live?

John Jay Chapman was born in 1862 and died in the year 1933.