Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of tria...l and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident--the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a ...flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and t...he geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows ... the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity ... mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. S...piritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not onl...y by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years' life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. ...Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him... down, his destiny must pick him up again."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the t...imelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The 5307th has collapsed. From a medical viewpoint, they're finished as a fighting unit.... I have never seen human beings in such... condition. They're drained, physically and psychologically drained. I'm not tagging them for specific ailments. I'm simply marking every man in the outfit A.O.E.--accumulation of everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What was Stephen's auditive sensation? He heard in a profound ancient male unfamiliar melody the accumulation of the past. ... />What was Bloom's visual sensation? He saw in a quick young male familiar form the predestination of a future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »