Famous quotes containing the words mary barnett gilson, barnett gilson, barnett and/or gilson:
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are “stuck” and can go no further.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)