... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the ha...nds of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;Mit... requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women, accustomed to ease and refinement, to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry, and to elegant society, in order that you have one Madame de StaĆ«l.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presen...ce, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as hav...ing sex, and nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins... and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people who toilet trained her and s...panked him when he was naughty. We may have become Masters of the Universe, accustomed to giving life and taking it away, casually ordering people into battle or out of their jobs . . . and yet we may still dirty our diapers at the sound of our mommy's whimper or our daddy's growl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal ch...aracteristics."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being g...uity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser o...r better than the many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »