Quotes by Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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

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

“What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.”

“An old man loved is winter with flowers.”

“Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.”

What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

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

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