Katharine Fullerton Gerould quotes

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. (Katharine Fullerton Gerould)
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. (Katharine Fullerton Gerould)
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould