Heywood Broun quotes

Heywood Broun was an American journalist, columnist, and social activist, renowned for his outspoken views and advocacy for the underprivileged. As a founding member of the Newspaper Guild, his work greatly influenced labor rights in journalism. He became known for his wit, progressive ideals, and dedication to fairness in the media. Here are 11 of his quotes:

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Heywood Broun

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Heywood Broun

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Heywood Broun

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Heywood Broun

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

Heywood Broun

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Heywood Broun

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Heywood Broun

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Heywood Broun