Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston

The great task of peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share or responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.

Improvement | Men | Peace | Responsibility | Will | Wisdom | Work | World | Value |

Michel Foucault

I believe that the political significance of the problem of sex is due to the fact that sex is located at the point of intersection of the discipline of the body and the control of the population.

Body | Control | Discipline | Wisdom |

Betty Friedan

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Blame | Wisdom |

Kate Millet, Katherine Murray Millett

The worst part about prostitution is that you’re obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That’s the worst part of it: that what you’re selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

Dignity | Humanity | Wisdom |

Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

Religion... sex... race... money... avoidance rites... malnutrition... dreams - no part of these can be looked at and clearly seen without looking at the whole of them. For, as a painter mixes colors and makes of them new colors, so religion is turned into something different by race, and segregation is colored as much by sex as by skin pigment, and money is no longer a coin but a lost wish wandering through a man’s whole life.

Dreams | Life | Life | Man | Money | Race | Religion | Rites | Wisdom |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

Abuse | Better | Humanity | Man |

F. A. Hayek, fully Friedrich August Hayek or von Hayek

Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one’s conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to beat the consequences of one’s own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.

Awareness | Conscience | Consequences | Decision | Duty | Necessity | Responsibility | Awareness |

Kenkō Hōshi, Buddhist name of Urabe Kaneyoshi

It is desirable for a ruler that no man should suffer from cold and hunger under his rule. Man cannot maintain his standard of morals when he has no ordinary means of living.

Hunger | Man | Means | Rule |

P. W. Martin

Promiscuity, possessiveness, misuse of sex for purposes of power, are all highly disintegrative.

Power | Promiscuity |

George Jean Nathan

Art is the sex of imagination.

Art | Imagination |

Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

The history of morals is the extension of the reciprocal or selfish virtues from the clan to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, from the nation to all communities living under the same government, civil or religious, then people of the same colour, and finally to all mankind.

Government | History | Mankind | People |

William Swing, fully William Edwin Swing

Where there is an ongoing relationship of caring. Where there is a sense of humor. Where there is a sense of mutual mercy. Where there is a sense that God has given sex to you… there is nothing livelier. But when it is merchandised as a commodity for instant gratification, there is nothing deadlier than sex.

God | Humor | Mercy | Nothing | Relationship | Sense | God |

Alfred North Whitehead

Defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Battle | Change | Defense | Stupidity |

Ann Landers, pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955

Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough, (2) Too much.

Enough | Men |