George Amos Dorsey Born : February 6, 1868Died : March 29, 1931 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by George Amos Dorsey Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. George Amos Dorsey familylovechildren Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian. George Amos Dorsey powerfulhatechristian They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil. George Amos Dorsey fatesleepwar The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use. George Amos Dorsey educationalusemind As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt. George Amos Dorsey qualityfleshmen Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in. George Amos Dorsey studybodyaction Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls. George Amos Dorsey goaljusticemen The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer. George Amos Dorsey vishnuproofmen
