How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expe...ctations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that da...y. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see it ... it is inevitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every su...ccessive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from firs...t to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.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 »
AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a uni...que apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they... would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, wit...h men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »