56 Quotes by Stanley Crouch

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.