Heywood Broun



Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. (December 7, 1888 – December 18, 1939) was an American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild.

Quotes

 * The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
 * "Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933


 * There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
 * "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939


 * Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
 * "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
 * Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, [HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=IRWxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22nobody+talks+so+constantly+about+god+as+those+who+insist+that+there+is+no+god%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage page 26]


 * Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
 * Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)