[When asked by the judge, after her first arrest, at age 15: "Do you expect to convert people to socialism by talking on Broadway?...":] Indeed I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goodbye, boys; I'm under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don't surrender! ...Pay no attention to the injunction machine at Parkersburg. The Federal judge is a scab anyhow. While you starve he plays golf. While you serve humanity, he serves injunctions for the money powers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven d...ays a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the th...eory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, Why plowing, building, ruling and the rest,... Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vexed us with Astronomie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, w...hen a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as a...n illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »