“ The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“ Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“ The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“ On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“ For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not… Hendrik Willem Van Loon
