Fredric Wertham Quotes

#1. If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest nemesis, you'd likely glance at the headshot of German-born psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham, with his owl-like glasses and severe Prussian features, and think, "Nah, too on-the-nose.

Glen Weldon

#2. The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Fredric Wertham

#3. The unavoidable conclusion that, precisely because God and creation are ontologically distinct in the manner of the absolute and the contingent, they are morally indiscerptible.
(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17)

David Bentley Hart

#4. That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

Eoin Colfer

#5. Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

Fredric Wertham

#6. For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

Fredric Wertham

#7. It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

Ty Simpkins

#8. Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

Fredric Wertham

#9. The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

Fredric Wertham

#10. I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Mamie Van Doren

#11. I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

A.R. Ammons

#12. It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Boris Becker

#13. You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Miles Davis

#14. Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.

John Valentine

#15. You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?

Stephen Graham Jones

#16. That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

Vince McMahon

#17. I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

John O. Brennan

#18. In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals ...

Laura Poitras