The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot al...ong. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. Th...e first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one thing that enslaves people more than any other to the servitude of war is nationalism--the patriotic cant--Religious cant ...is feeble; its on a down slope fighting to hold territory--but the patriotism--all the noxious influences of the world seem to have thrown their tentacles about it--Its the mask of all the trade-greed & the glory-breed--and the asininity that makes people insist on sacrificing themselves on the nearest altar--no matter how brazen the God above it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How damned ridiculous it all is! The long generations toiling--skimping, lashing themselves screwing higher and higher the tension... of their minds, polishing brighter and brighter the mirror of intelligence to end in this--My God what a time--All the cant and hypocrisy, all the damnable survivals, all the vestiges of old truths now putrid and false infect the air, choke you worse than German gas--The ministers from their damn smug pulpits, the business men--the heroics about war--my country right or wrong--oh infinities of them! Oh the tragic farce of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interreg...num. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping--rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas--But, goodness, why need they do it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, an...d disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, love, love--all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures..., a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of... leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behaviour perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »