William Moulton Marston Quotes

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A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion a false emotion it trains people seeing it to react abnormally.

William Moulton Marston
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women in all fields of human activity.

William Moulton Marston
Comics they say are not literature—adventure strips lack artistic form, mental substance, and emotional appeal to any but the most moronic of minds. Can it be that 100,000,000 Americans are morons?

William Moulton Marston
In the majority of cases which are brought to me as a consulting psychologist for love and marital adjustment, there are self-deceptions to be uncovered as well as attempts to deceive other people. Beneath such love conflicts there is almost always a festering psychological core of dishonesty.

William Moulton Marston
The talkies are the only art that would attract Leonardo da Vinci were he alive today. This art is a baby giant, as clumsy as all babies are... we don't know what the baby will be doing and saying when it grows up. But we are sure it will make its mark in the world.

William Moulton Marston
Sound and talking undoubtedly increase the entertainment value of a picture. There is a distinct conflict, however, between a pictorial and sound elements, which cannot be entirely avoided until third dimensional pictures are made.

William Moulton Marston
Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?

William Moulton Marston
As lovely as Aphrodite—as wise as Athena—with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules —she is known only as Wonder Woman, but who she is, or whence she came, nobody knows!

William Moulton Marston
The next 100 years will see the beginning of an American matriarchy- a nation of amazons in the psychological rather than the physical sense. In 500 years there will be a serious sex battle. And in 1000 years women will definitely rule this country.

William Moulton Marston
There are one or two rules of thumb which are useful in distinguishing sadism from exciting adventure in the comics. Threat of torture is harmless, but when the torture it's self is shown it becomes sadism. When a lovely heroine is show bound to the stake, comics followers are sure that the rescue will arrive just in the nick of time. The readers wish is to save the girl, not to see her suffer. A bound or chained person does not suffer even embarrassment in the comics, and the reader, therefore is not being taught to enjoy suffering.

William Moulton Marston