Simeon Strunsky Quotes

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

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Simeon Strunsky (July 23, 1879 – February 5, 1948) was a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.