Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Janet Campbell Hale

Quote by Janet Campbell Hale

Work

The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

This book delves into the story of Cecelia Capture, whose experiences in a penal institution challenge the reader's understanding of justice and societal expectations. more

Author

Janet Campbell Hale
Janet Campbell Hale

Janet Campbell Hale is an American writer born on January 11, 1946. Her works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Hale is known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

You May Also Like

“So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.”

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”