Pride System

Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:

    Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,
    Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    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)