S. I. Hayakawa
S. I. Hayakawa
Samuel Ichiye "S. I." Hayakawawas a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 July 1906
CountryUnited States of America
S. I. Hayakawa quotes about
funny-inspirational mind speak
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
struggle animal clothes
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.
meanings-of-words
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
community world matter
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.
culture united-states common
The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
views opposites ideas
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
dream children opportunity
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.
land native-language ideas
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.
political voting identity
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
revenge mcdonalds pearls
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
death dirty self
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
peace war squares
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.
occupation advertising symbols
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation
golf trying dresses
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.