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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, People, Comfort

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• ... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Believe, Book

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• democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Democracy, Guarantees

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• Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Individual, Dare, Individual Freedom

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  America, Aristocracy, Wealth

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Long, Mind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, History, Unconventional

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

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  Lying, Science, Fields

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• ... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Book, Asparagus, Dollars

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, Imagination, Whole

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1971). “Ringside Seats”

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