A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is... inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe.... What a terrible future!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on ...physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick are parasites on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To continue vegetating in cowardly dependenc...e on physicians and machinations once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to occasion a deep contempt within society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer...e out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is evidence that all too many people are approaching parenthood with a dangerous lack of knowledge and skill. The result is ...that many children are losing out on what ought to be an undeniable right--the right to have parents who know how to be good parents, parents skilled in the art of "parenting."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods of ...dress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ough...t, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can ...write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »