Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions..., only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although ... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot enquire into whether the abolition of private pro...perty is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments ... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sex which numbers more than one-half the population of the world is forced to enter the keen competition of life with many dis...advantages, real and fictitious. Are the legitimate compensation and honors that should come as the result of ability and merit to be denied on the untenable ground of sex aristocracy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Com...passion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »