"Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!"

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Children Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Morality Quotes

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
“Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.”
“I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.”
“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”
“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”
“I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.”
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
“My children were the center of my life.”

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