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  • ... a tin-horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor. More
  • ... democracy is not only service, action, brotherhood—it is spirit—spirit free, indefinable,... More
  • ... dependence upon material possessions inevitably results in the destruction of human character. More
  • ... gratitude is not a healthy emotion in the long run ... More
  • ... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly... More
  • ... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the... More
  • ... many American Jews have a morbid tendency to exaggerate their handicaps and difficulties. ...... More
  • ... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so... More
  • ... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. More
  • ... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled... More
  • ... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise... More
  • ... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to... More
  • ... So damn your food and damn your wines,
    Your twisted loaves and twisting vines,
    Your... More
  • ... teaching to me was anathema, chiefly because it would condemn me to a world of petticoats. More
  • ... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man’s regeneration. In raising... More
  • ... the idea of a classless society is ... a disastrous mirage which cannot be maintained without... More
  • ... the lesson to be learned from China’s Confucianism could never be more significant for us... More
  • ... the mass migrations now habitual in our nation are disastrous to the family and to the... More
  • ... the planters began by stealing the liberty of their slaves, by stealing their labour, by... More
  • ... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means... More
  • ... the whole Wilsonian buncombe ... its ideational hollowness, its ludicrous strutting and... More
  • ... women become far more cruel than men when they hurl themselves into ruthless competition with... More
  • ...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other. More
  • ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are... More
  • ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and... More
  • ...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere... More
  • ...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything... More
  • ...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million... More
  • ...women were fighting for limited freedom, the vote and more education. I wanted all the... More
  • A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a... More
  • A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. More
  • A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. More
  • A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. More
  • A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. More
  • A child who thinks he is good at something even if he is not—soccer, math, violin—is likely... More
  • A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. More
  • A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress... More
  • A cult is a religion with no political power. More
  • A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely... More
  • A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. More
  • A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. More
  • A fierce unrest seethes at the core,
    Of all existing things:,
    It was the eager wish to... More
  • A fool and her money are soon courted. More
  • A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my... More
  • A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. More
  • A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not... More
  • A good part—and definitely the most fun part—of being a feminist is about frightening men. More
  • A horse, a buggy and several sets of harness, valued in all at about $250, were stolen last night... More
  • A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. More
  • A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. More
  • A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. More
  • A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses... More
  • A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after that he begins to bunch... More
  • A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish... More
  • A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. More
  • A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of... More
  • A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with... More
  • a man
    thinks he amounts
    to a great deal
    but to a
    flea or a
    mosquito... More
  • A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that... More
  • A man’s idea in a card game is war—cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is... More
  • A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always... More
  • A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you... More
  • A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. More
  • A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. More
  • A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles—whose needs are never... More
  • A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the... More
  • A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own... More
  • A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be... More
  • A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. More
  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine... More
  • A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically... More
  • A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy... More
  • A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be... More
  • A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had... More
  • A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more... More
  • A “snapshot” feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had... More
  • Actually being married seemed so crowded with unspoken rules and odd secrets and unfathomable... More
  • Adultery is the application of democracy to love. More
  • After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most... More
  • After marriage, a woman’s sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband... More
  • After World War I, the objective factors for socialist revolution were less favorable than they... More
  • Afterwards, when the bombshell of early motherhood first hit, I remember wondering how any woman... More
  • Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is... More
  • Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and... More
  • Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. More
  • Alcohol is nicissary f’r a man so that now an’ thin he can have a good opinion iv himsilf,... More
  • Alimony—The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. More
  • All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is... More
  • All love that has not friendship for its base,
    Is like a mansion built upon the sand. More
  • All of women’s aspirations—whether for education, work, or any form of... More
  • All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or... More
  • All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running... More
  • All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why... More
  • All that the Y.M.C.A.’s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable... More
  • All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it,... More
  • All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power,... More
  • All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich... More
  • All th’ world loves a good loser. More
  • Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that... More
  • Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually... More

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