George Amos Dorsey Quotes

#1. Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

George Amos Dorsey

#2. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

George Amos Dorsey

#3. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

George Amos Dorsey

#4. The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

George Amos Dorsey

#5. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

George Amos Dorsey

#6. They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

George Amos Dorsey

#7. The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.

George Amos Dorsey

#8. Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

George Amos Dorsey