Lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in The New York Times (20 November 1984)
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy (1916)
Misc. Quotes
Context: It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
Kenneth D. Mackenzie (1986), Organizational design: the organizational audit and analysis technology. p. 154
τίς ὸμφαλητόμος σε τὸν διοπλῆγα
ἔψησε κἀπέλουσεν ἀσκαρίζοντα
Attributed by Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd c. CE), 'On Inflections'; as cited by Douglas Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 367.
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197
