68 Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

those who despair of life are not long for it.