Agnes E. Meyer

Famous quotes by agnes e. meyer:

    “It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democracy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “... democracy is not only service, action, brotherhood—it is spirit—spirit free, indefinable, all-pervasive, that holds us to its revelations even when we seek to escape them.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)