George Eastman Quotes

“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.”

“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”

“More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.”

“The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.”

“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”

“Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.”

“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”