4 Quotes by Harold Edmund Stearns

What good are all these gadgets, if the life you live with them is mean and unimaginative?

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.