Joseph Wood Krutch
Environmentalist
1893-11-25
Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
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The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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Scorn not the common man, says the age of abundance. He may have no soul; his personality may be exactly the same as his neighbor's; and he may not produce anything worth having. But thank God, he consumes.
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If you don't want prosperity to falter, then Buy, Buy, Buy-on credit, of course. In other words, the surest way of bringing on a rainy day is to prepare for it.
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The good thing about the country is ... that we don't have there any bad weather at all-only a number of different kinds of good.
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What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man's rights but we minimize his capacities.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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