All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
… if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
I have not found that the people who cling to the letter are always the people who cling to the spirit of the law. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
I cannot conceive a more odious society than one where nothing is considered indecent or impious. Katharine Fullerton Gerould