May Sarton Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

• One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

  May Sarton

  Believe, Belief, Talent

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.40, Open Road Media

• The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

  May Sarton

  Stress, Solitude, Balance

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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