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“Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.”

Has Beens Enjoy Interest Community Class Greater Birth Harmony Misery Prosperity Wealthy Birth Control Guarded Working Women

Book:Woman, morality, and birth control

Source: Woman, morality, and birth control

“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Evil Effort Poverty Greater Direct Misery Vices Instance Assault

Author:William Graham Sumner

“For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .”

World Giving May Care Hours Loses Forget Greater Pure Harmony Misery Everyday Missions Everyday Life Exaltation

Book:More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs

Source: More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.”

Greater Misery Innate Tease

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement