Top 25 Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould of 62 - Page 3

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Believe, Men, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Real, Ignorance, College

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Mean, Men, Community

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Philosophy, Doors, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Dog, Past, Lions

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Dresses, Sin, Conviction

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Guilt, Faults, Bears

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Soul, Doubt, Flesh

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Truth, Men, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Educational, Hands, People

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”