25 Quotes by Edgar Friedenberg

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.