5 Joseph Priestley Quotes on Society

Joseph Priestley quotes on society

7. Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

8. Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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13. The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

19. We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

21. When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

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