Agnes E. Meyer

Famous quotes by agnes e. meyer:

    “Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...”
    —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)

    “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)

    “As our disorderly, competitive technological society is piling up its victims and constantly developing new problems of maladjustment, we must use our scientific knowledge to determine the cause and prevention of suffering rather than putting all our emphasis on its alleviation ...”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)