Lillian Wald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
-- Lillian Wald

#War #Women #Heroism
Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.
-- Lillian Wald

#Attitude #Reform #Accomplished
the fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal ...
-- Lillian Wald

#People #Giving #Community
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out
-- Lillian Wald

#War #Women #Men
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
-- Lillian Wald

#Men #Tasks #Needs

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
I want in all cases to do right.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
One part brave, three parts fool!

Lillian Wald famous quotes

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