Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of all... times are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[holds her by the hand, silent] O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,... The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your son, believe it--O, believe it-- Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You haven't wasted all your time in Rome, since you know how to defend yourself so gallantly: you have wit, even if you haven't co...urage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is futile to ask women not to go into business, as futile almost as to insist that water shall not run downhill. One cannot sto...p world movements; and the efforts of women toward emancipation--the natural result of the deadly monotony of their task on the one hand, a jealousy of man's freedom, and a total ignorance of man's struggle as well as of the glory of their own special opportunity--all lead to the condition we are facing to-day. If in any way I can indicate the pain of the struggle, if I can succeed in making women appreciate that there are two sides to the question, one not altogether rosy, and that, although they will undoubtedly win, they will be forced to pay a high price, then I shall have accomplished my purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; & if... he don't attain the bottom, why, all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable toll... on society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to conven...tion, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All is changed. All looks strange to me and gives me a feeling which I would rather get away from, although I know it to be the ca...rrying out of natural laws. And I am not complaining. I am doing the same as many old people have done, I suppose, who have led an active life and suddenly find themselves living without a purpose. Oh, my heart is so full. I could write a big book on the subject of going out of this world gracefully.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these... roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »