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

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" On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. "

" Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. "

" Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. "

" The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. "

" The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. "

" Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. "

" 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. "

" Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. "

" No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "

" Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. "

" 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. "

" The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. "

" Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. "

" The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. "

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

" 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. "

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

" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "

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

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" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. "