Susan Glaspell Quotes

We live in a society where everything's packaged.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Old Time the clock-setter.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

Fate carries its own clock.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

The command of custome is great.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Society's the mother of convention.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.