Edgar Friedenberg
Edgar Friedenberg
evil special purpose
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
school matter taught
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.
technology order moral
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.
doe world youngsters
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.
arrogance want kind
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
teenage target communist
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
teenage patterns life-is
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.
weakness impotence
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
hypocrisy people liberty
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.
rude friendly being-rude
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
self-esteem valuable esteem
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
decide perhaps rather valuable value
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
age-and-aging loved man proverbs winter
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
people matter violence
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.