Incompatible

Famous quotes containing the word incompatible:

    Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer ... something old-adamish, incompatible to the “ordinary world.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)