... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the free...dom and equality of the races and the sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing so...ciety for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinster...s. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not ...obey its laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to c...ommunicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity--a way of proclai...ming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small p...rotection for liberty.... Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried... to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Socie...ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benef...it of a privileged class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »