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Quote by Robert M. Lindner

“It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.”

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Robert M. Lindner was an American author known for his profound insights into the lives of the middle class. His works often focused on the changes in American society, particularly the urban life of the mid-20th century. more

“Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.”

“Even as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by an outward meekness and lowliness in her speeches and carriage to her husband....For if there be not fear and reverence in the inferior, there can be no sound nor constant honor yielded to the superior.”

Ifs Jesus Sound Christ Church Wife Honor Husband Speech Constant Superiors Reverence Inward Inferiors Meekness Carriages Lowliness

Author:John Dod

“The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.”

Wife Duty Constant Obedience Subjection

Book:A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements: With a Methodicall Short Catechisme, Containing Briefly the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion

Source: A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements: With a Methodicall Short Catechisme, Containing Briefly the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion

“The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.”

Light Certain Sun Planets Moon Roots Stronger Feminine Masculine Governing

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry. The girl who will be mine will have skin so soft and tender, and when it comes December, her skin will be my wine.”

Want Heart Eye Girl Wise Mines My Heart Skins Wine Her Eyes Hollow December

Book:Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris

Source: Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris

“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.”