You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of... the French council.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nature of Man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formatio...n of the State. The necessity of the colonists wrote the law. Their wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities, and to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted; it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through them to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Deacon King was tried for violating the Sabbath, and so hot was the debate that it was referred to the church council, which ultim...ately decided, after long and grave debate, that the deacon had committed a 'work of necessity and mercy.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under t...he superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury,... Who lived in both, unstain'd with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Kill'd with report that old man eloquent;--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked... this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we say, 'George IV wished to know whether Scott was the author of Waverley,' we normally mean 'George IV wished to know wheth...er one and only one man wrote Waverley and Scott was that man'; but we may also mean: 'One and only one man wrote Waverley and George IV wished to know whether Scott was that man.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »