Quotes from Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.

And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.