Famous Clare Booth Luce Quotations

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"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."
by Clare Booth Luce
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"
by Clare Booth Luce
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
by Clare Booth Luce
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there."
by Clare Booth Luce
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
by Clare Booth Luce
"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."
by Clare Booth Luce
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
by Clare Booth Luce
"No good deed goes unpunished."
by Clare Booth Luce
"No woman of our time has gone further with less mental equipment."
by Clifton Fadiman (about Clare Booth Luce)
"Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
by Clare Booth Luce
"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."
by Clare Booth Luce
"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
by Clare Booth Luce
"It is difficult to entertain a warm feeling for a 'medical man' who straps dogs to a table, cuts their vocal cords, and spends an interesting day or week slowly vivisecting or dismembering them."
by Clare Booth Luce
"The existence of organized cruelty - that is, cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means of a higher goal - is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization."
by Clare Booth Luce


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