Susan Glaspell Quotes

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

I don't know how to play evil.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.