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" Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "

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" To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. "

" Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. "

" When we can't dream any longer we die. "

" Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. "

" Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. "

" Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? "

" No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. "

" The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. "

" To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. "

" Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. "

" If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. "

" The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. "

" There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. "

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" One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. "

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

" It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. "