The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: September 14, 1917 Death: December 8, 1986 |
Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'