15 Quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Time the devourer of everything.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.