We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer of... marriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suc...kers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent ...and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable... and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that ...it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The ladies] must be aware that a great evil cannot for a long time, predominate, without, at least, their connivance. Silence is ...often as effectual an advocate in a cause as eloquence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries, because they are not good in their ow...n, and run back to their own, because they pass for nothing in the new places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am blamed for the pardon of [Ezra Hervey] Heywood, convicted in Boston of sending obscene matter through the mails. A man guilty... of circulating, writing, or publishing obscene books--books intended or calculated to corrupt the young--would find no favor with me.... I think the real objection to Heywood's act is ... that he was on the wrong side of the question ... as to marriage.... But it is no crime by the laws of the United States to advocate the abolition of marriage. In this case the writings were objectionable but were not obscene, lascivious, lewd, or corrupting in the criminal sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pilate with his question "What is truth?" is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion... that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, Zarathustra, the advocate of life, the advocate of suffering, the advocate of the circle--I summon you, my most abysmal thought...!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »