All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Happiness Copy Share Image
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Glory Copy Share Image
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Acquired taste Copy Share Image
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Conviction Copy Share Image
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Burglary Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould America Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Certain Copy Share Image
... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Code Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Faces Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Ifs Copy Share Image
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Angry Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Chorus Copy Share Image
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Abstract Copy Share Image
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Begin again Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buyMontessori outfits that… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Children Copy Share Image
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Claims Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Clever Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Care Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould All things Copy Share Image
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Altruism Copy Share Image
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Drinking Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Culture Copy Share Image
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Affirmative Copy Share Image
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Despise Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Adjectives Copy Share Image
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Defilement Copy Share Image
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Admitting Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Asparagus Copy Share Image
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Dare Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Democracy Copy Share Image
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Demand Copy Share Image
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Cases Copy Share Image