Quotes of Reformatory - somelinesforyou

“ By starving emotions, we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped. By repressing them, we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou. Encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. ”

- Joseph Collins

“ The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc… ”

- Henry Miller
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