The French courage proceeds from vanity--the German from phlegm--the Turkish from fanaticism & opium--the Spanish from pride--the ...English from coolness--the Dutch from obstinacy--the Russian from insensibility--but the Italian from anger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by ...the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up t...o terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The period of the Visiter was one of great mental activity--a period of hobbies--and it, having assumed the reform roll [sic], was... expected to assume all the reforms. Turkish trowsers [sic], Fourierism, Spiritualism, Vegetarianism, Phonetics, Pneumonics, the Eight Hour Law, Criminal Candling, Magdalenism, and other devices for teaching the pyramids to stand on their apex were pressed upon the Visiter, and it was held by the disciples of each as "false to all its professions," when declining to devote itself to its advocacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel no more like a man now than I did in long skirts, unless it be that enjoying more freedom and cutting off the fetters is to... be like a man. I suppose in that respect we are more mannish, for we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves, while man in dress and all things else is free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »