To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. - Harry Allen Overstreet
A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. - Harry Allen Overstreet
BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures. To read books is one way of growing along with one’s fellows-in-growth. - Harry Allen Overstreet
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build. - Harry Allen Overstreet
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. - Harry Allen Overstreet
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. - Harry Allen Overstreet