The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before ...affection and condescension before all else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, tech...nological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it--or, bette...r still, feel a healthy indifference to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, withou...t spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the heal...thful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fact, the mental hygiene code, modeled originally upon the criminal code, binds the afflicted party under every method of legal... restraint. The afflicted is in a sense one accused, hospitalization constituting a type of arrest, accompanied by police power and physical force both in seizure itself and in detention, where escape is prevented by locks and bars and prohibited by statute as well. Having committed no crime, one can--while drugged and unable even to comprehend the proceedings, without even counsel of one's own choosing--within a routine five-minute hearing lose one's liberty for an indeterminate period, even for life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blo...od.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dange...rous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »