Howard Mumford Jones Quotes

"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."
- Howard Mumford Jones
(Related: Society, Criticism, First, Law, Persecution)

"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
- Howard Mumford Jones
(Related: Hope, Conformity, Lies, Now, Weight, Will, Youth)

"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit."
- Howard Mumford Jones
(Related: Progress, Optimism, American, Energy, Spirit)

"Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history."
- Howard Mumford Jones
(Related: History, American, Fact, Literary)