Pride System

Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:

    Gather therefore the Rose, whilest yet is prime,
    For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre:
    Gather the Rose of love, whilest yet is time,
    Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime.’
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)