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Top 30 Elizabeth Janeway Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “If there’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won’t go.”

1. “If there’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won’t go.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Humor is an antidote to isolation.”

2. “Humor is an antidote to isolation.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.”

3. “If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.”

4. “If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Power is the ability not to have to please.”

5. “Power is the ability not to have to please.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “We haven’t come a long way, we’ve come a short way. If we hadn’t come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”

6. “We haven’t come a long way, we’ve come a short way. If we hadn’t come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?”

7. “Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Powerful people get away with things. That’s one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

8. “Powerful people get away with things. That’s one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.”

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

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, ‘This is the way the world works.’ It’s enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.”

10. “This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, ‘This is the way the world works.’ It’s enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “We older women who know we aren’t heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

11. “We older women who know we aren’t heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.”

12. “I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”

13. “Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.”

14. “We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Elizabeth Janeway

Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.”

16. “Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.”

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

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”

18. “The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

19. “The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “The greatest barrier to women’s advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don’t belong out there.”

20. “The greatest barrier to women’s advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don’t belong out there.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”

21. “We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It’s big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!”

22. “By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It’s big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I’m thirty-one.”

23. “I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I’m thirty-one.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.”

24. “As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “If history is really relevant in today’s world, the proposition doesn’t command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.”

25. “If history is really relevant in today’s world, the proposition doesn’t command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.”

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

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.”

27. “We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.”

28. “Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Can one consider controversy without falling into it?”

29. “Can one consider controversy without falling into it?”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”

30. “Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”

31. “Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don’t often affect the price of fish or wine.”

32. “Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don’t often affect the price of fish or wine.”

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Elizabeth Janeway Quote: “The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren’t powerful.”

33. “The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren’t powerful.”

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