 Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. |
| When we can't dream any longer we die. |
| Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. |
| The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. |
| There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. |
| If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. |
| The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. |
| The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. |
| Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. |
| If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. |
| Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. |
| Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
| All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. |
| Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. |
| The most violent element in society is ignorance. |
| No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. |
| No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. |
| Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. |
| To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. |
| Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. |
