You Can Bear Anything If It Is

One Of The Reasons, Surely, Why Women Have Been Credited With Less Perfect Veracity Than Men Is That The Burden Of Conventional Falsehood Falls Chiefly On Them.

Most Men Have Always Wanted As Much As They Could Get; And Possession Has Always Blunted The Fine Edge Of Their Altruism.

We Put [young Children] Into Kindergarten Where Their Reasoning Powers Are Ruined; Or, If We Can Afford It, We Buy Montessori Outfits That Were Invented For Semi-imbeciles In Italian Slums; Or We Send Them To Outdoor Schools And Give Them Prizes For Sleeping.

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.

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.