We have to give ourselves--men in particular--permission to really be with and get to know our children. The premise is that takin...g care of kids can be a pain in the ass, and it is frustrating and agonizing, but also gratifying and enjoyable. When a little kid says, "I love you, Daddy," or cries and you comfort her or him, life becomes a richer experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiti...ng my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and aga...inst the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Side by side with the Marxists of the northern cities, flourishing in the same situation and starting from the same premise, there... appeared at the beginning of the thirties the second of the anti-capitalist movements of the decade, the movement called Southern Agrarianism. If the Marxists wished to give power to the masses, the Agrarians meant to give it to an educated aristocracy ruling over an eighteenth-century economy. Where the Marxists foresaw an ever-growing concentration of industrial activity in units that were to increase in size, the Agrarians strove to break up the large productive units into groups of small ones, and, through decentralization, return to the society of Jefferson's time, when the great bulk of the people owned their own land. The Agrarians, consequently, looked as strenuously at the past as the Marxists did to the future. Where the Marxists drew their inspiration from the socialist thinkers of the nineteenth century, the Agrarians went back to Plato and his philosopher-kings vigorously trained to rule the state, to Carlyle and superman formulators of modern times, to Chesterton and Belloc and their strong religious orthodoxy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one ano...ther, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hamilton took as his major premise the evil nature of man and followed with the consequent need for an authoritative government in... the hands of the propertied, who had a "stake in society" and therefore had most to gain or lose by government; Jefferson argued that since man is naturally well-disposed toward his fellows, all that is necessary for a good society is sufficient training and opportunity to make all men realize that their own good derives from the common good. Hamilton believed the principal duty of government was to protect private property and the sanctity of contract; Jefferson saw it as promoting the general welfare over and above any consideration of wealth.... Hamilton saw American prosperity rising through industrial capitalism; Jefferson looked with suspicion and disfavor upon mercantile activity, found it enslaving, deceitful, predatory, and contrary to man's natural desire to live free and relatively self-sufficient by the fruit of his own labors. Instead of manufacturing, he placed his hopes in an agrarian economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricio...us--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean th...e living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »