Quotes from Edgar Friedenberg

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.