Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds--a sacrifice to the vanity of ageing adolescents.... I...n 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the th...eory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eye...s of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know you're here.... What's wrong? Are you afraid to speak up? Is that all you're good for, to frighten women? Well, I'm not afr...aid of you. Whoever heard of a cowardly ghost?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses wil...ling, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kin...d-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle...-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis--German National Socialism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is r...aised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »