Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
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Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
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I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.