Quotes by Alfred Whitney Griswold

A Socrates in every classroom.
– Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
– Alfred Whitney Griswold
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.
– Alfred Whitney Griswold
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
– Alfred Whitney Griswold
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
– Alfred Whitney Griswold