“The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”
Quotes by Philip Wylie
“Light was the symbol I tried to give them...The Cross was the symbol they adopted. The pain of self-sacrifice was obvious to them. The subjective reward--incomprehensible. Thus they changed it all. I told them of many mansions. They chose this mansion or that--scoured each other off the earth, to set one heaven in place of the heaven of those they defeated. Holy wars! Is such a thing conceivable to God as a holy war? Alas. The words--the images--the effort is still uncomprehended. I said Light. I said truth. I said Freedom. I meant enlightenment. Yet nearly every church that uses my name is a wall against light and a rampart against enlightenment, using fear, not love, to chain the generations in terror and pain and ignorance . . . And now--this is called civilization, and in my name, also!”
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
Philip WyliePhilip Wylie was an American author known for his diverse body of work that spanned multiple genres, including science fiction, mystery, and social commentary. He gained prominence in the 1930s and 19...