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Top 25 Richard Mitchell Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Mitchell Quote: “Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.”

1. “Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.”

2. “Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.”

3. “An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to ‘educate the people’ so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”

4. “Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to ‘educate the people’ so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?”

5. “When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.”

6. “Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.”

7. “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.”

— Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell Quote: “There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.”

8. “There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.”

9. “Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.”

10. “If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading – in things like recipes and “reading material.” The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don’t do the other simply because you do the one.”

11. “Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading – in things like recipes and “reading material.” The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don’t do the other simply because you do the one.”

— Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell Quote: “If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.”

12. “If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.”

— Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell Quote: “People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”

13. “People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.”

14. “His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.”

15. “If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.”

16. “Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.”

17. “Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.”

18. “Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.”

19. “You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.”

20. “His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.”

21. “Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.”

22. “Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government’s damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.”

23. “The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government’s damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “That’s how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits, which, in our case, is quite a lot, so a string of words can just as easily express inanities as ideas. When inanities are expressed, we can discover them just by paying attention to the words.”

24. “That’s how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits, which, in our case, is quite a lot, so a string of words can just as easily express inanities as ideas. When inanities are expressed, we can discover them just by paying attention to the words.”

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Richard Mitchell Quote: “If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely – provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.”

25. “If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely – provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.”

— Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell Quote: “Always let your conscience be your guide” is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?”

26. “Always let your conscience be your guide” is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?”

— Richard Mitchell

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