The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903
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How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCThere are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959