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 More Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould More Quotes From 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 masteryintuitionpregnancy 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 realsimplelife-is Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Fullerton Gerould simplicityinspirational-lifetaste Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Katharine Fullerton Gerould testskindaliens No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do. Katharine Fullerton Gerould powerfulcleverlong men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. Katharine Fullerton Gerould mensexthinking Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. Katharine Fullerton Gerould receivingpeoplecompliment 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 socialistvegetarianismanswers When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. Katharine Fullerton Gerould temperamentfashionartist Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. Katharine Fullerton Gerould givingmenbelieve 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 kindmistakebelieve The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. Katharine Fullerton Gerould aristocracywealthamerica Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it. Katharine Fullerton Gerould individual-freedomdareindividual Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. Katharine Fullerton Gerould despisetruthpeople 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 fatspursesfashion Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. Katharine Fullerton Gerould marry-mesocialmay Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Katharine Fullerton Gerould nastytastecivilization ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is. Katharine Fullerton Gerould cardesireamerica 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 finestupidmen All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. Katharine Fullerton Gerould aquariumsprivacyessentials
