💬 Quotes

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"I could not fail myself and die on this particular day."

"Pain does not matter to a man."

"He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong enough to do it."

"The actual religion of all Anglo-India is being driven off the face of the earth, or rather out of the mouth of man, by rail, road, and telegraph."

"A man should, whatever happens, keep to his own caste, race, and breed. Let the white go to the white and the black to the black."

"Skulls and cross-bones limit her ideas; but she is none the less clever for that. She can take a man's heart out of his bosom, tear it into small pieces, and burn it before his eyes, with the most touching regret."

"Love isn't made in a minute—not in the North or the South, and least of all in the East. It is a slow-growing plant."

"Give him all the work you can put upon him, from sun-up to sundown, and if you set him safe inside a fence, he'll grow."

"My Chief said: 'Let Mrs. Hauksbee alone.' But Mrs. Hauksbee is not the sort of woman who lets anybody alone."

"Our whole life is based on the idea of combat—competition, struggle for existence, the war of man with man. We call it civilization, but it is largely a survival of the predatory stage."

"A world where half the people are raised to be parasitic, and the other half are raised to support them, can never reach true human development."

"In our land, we do not think of mothering as a life sentence that cuts a woman off from the world; we think of it as the highest public service, the very root of human culture."

"You men have made a world of giant progress in machinery and science, yet remain veritable infants in the art of social combination and peaceful living."

"True education is not the cramming of facts, but the unfolding of the soul's capacity for love, service, and intelligent cooperation."

"When you civilize the women, you civilize the race. There is no other way."

"Each time you translate altogether to another person's tongue, the meaning is changed; all civilization is a translation."

"We're ridiculous, simply because we're up against the vieux jeu. I suppose I've come to America just to try and face it down."

"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."

"It was the feeling that one had no choice, that one's way was cleared and lined and gauged for one, that was so oppressive and yet so safe."