As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in p...ublic life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother wi...thout and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these a...re abandoned, of race, but of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has b...een abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Burke and Adams had much in common. Adams read Burke's Philosophical Inquiry, for example, as part of his preparation for life and... a career. Burke--who had sympathized with the American Revolution--after all, the patriots were only seeking their rights as Englishmen--became the avowed enemy of the French Revolution. Adams for his part was not only a thinker, he was a doer: a daring patriot, diplomat, vice-president and president. Yet he never abandoned the life of the mind, as his discourse against the French Revolution attests. Burke and Adams had their similar views on events because they each saw man as disposed to selfishness, requiring public institutions to which civic allegiance is owed to restrain those ignoble instincts so that the virtuous side of people would have a chance to flourish. It was, oddly, an optimism based on a pessimistic estimate of human nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes--the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On... sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to dif...ferent names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have had nineteen centuries of ecclesiastical teaching and preaching, and what do we see in our midst? Tens of thousands of hon...est and industrious poor begging--not for bread, but for labour; thousands of malicious loafers looking evilly aslant at wealth; myriads of fallen women pacing the streets and alleys of our towns that they may degrade for temporary hire, to men more debased than themselves, those frail bodies which should be "temples of the living God." We see millions toiling early and late for the mere necessaries of life. We see an inordinate desire for wealth and luxury, to the exclusion of duty and of pity and consideration for others. We see the wealthy and gifted too often abandoned to sensuality and frivolity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »