“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.” WayDoeMatterStatesIndividualSocialOpinionDemocracyFeetCrimePressesVicesTricksOne WayLive BySooner Or LaterRidiculePublic OpinionSecrecyDodge Author:Joseph Pulitzer
“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]” MenHas BeensPhilosophyAgeSocialCitiesVirtueLife PhilosophyVicesGuidesTheeEnjoymentSearchers Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.” ReasonEvilSocialHistoryMankindConsequenceVicesImprovementEmpiresRomeBeneficialIntercourseSocial LifeRoman EmpireDeclamation Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
“It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.” SocialVicesPursuitCodeRestriction Book:Pagan Papers Source: Pagan Papers
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin