Heywood Broun Quotes

Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, later known as The Newspaper Guild and now as The NewsGuild-CWA. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. December 1888 – 18. December 1939
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Famous Heywood Broun Quotes

“The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.”

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"Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933

“Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.”

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Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India http://books.google.com/books?ei=hCIHT_v4Bqbu0gGz0YWMAw&id=T1gOAAAAYAAJ&q="Appeasers+believe+that+if+you+keep+on+throwing+steaks+to+a+tiger+the+tiger+will+become+a+vegetarian"&pg=PA268#v=onepage (1942)

“There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.”

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"A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939

“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”

Heywood Broun

&quot;A New Preface to an Old Story&quot;, Broun&#x27;s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939 <br class="br">Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace &amp; Co, 1941, page 26 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=IRWxAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22nobody+talks+so+constantly+about+god+as+those+who+insist+that+there+is+no+god%22&amp;pg=PA26#v=onepage

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