Friedenberg Quotes

#1. Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Edgar Friedenberg

#2. Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Edgar Friedenberg

#3. The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Edgar Friedenberg

#4. 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.

Edgar Friedenberg

#5. The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will.

Sheri S. Tepper

#6. The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Imogen Cunningham

#7. Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Edgar Friedenberg

#8. 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.

Edgar Friedenberg

#9. 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.

Edgar Friedenberg

#10. Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to be able to let him go. It was as simple and as hard as that. I had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn't cut away. It was my own fault, really. I couldn't let go of Conrad.

Jenny Han

#11. I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Manny Pacquiao

#12. No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Edgar Friedenberg

#13. All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Edgar Friedenberg

#14. 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.

Edgar Friedenberg

#15. The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Edgar Friedenberg

#16. Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Edgar Friedenberg

#17. What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Edgar Friedenberg

#18. Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Edgar Friedenberg

#19. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

#20. Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Socrates

#21. The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.

Edgar Friedenberg

#23. Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Edgar Friedenberg

#24. 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.

Edgar Friedenberg

#25. If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

Edgar Friedenberg

#26. Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Horace

#27. It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Friedenberg

#28. Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Edgar Friedenberg