Author: Sidney Hook

Quotes

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

- Sidney Hook

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

- Sidney Hook

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

- Sidney Hook

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

- Sidney Hook

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

- Sidney Hook

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