While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolera...ble old burden of sex ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than eith...er the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Freud's] views are remarkably similar to those of the great theorist of autocracy, Thomas Hobbes; for he, too, tried to build a s...ocial order on a psychology--and one emphasizing men's fears and passions. Just as Freud imagined that society began from a compact of the brothers who had slain their tyrant father and realized that only in union and renunciation could they avoid the war of all against all, so Hobbes saw men in the state of nature as engaged in ceaseless combat, with peace attainable only by renunciation of virtually all individual rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all tr...ials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »