Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social or...der is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Catholicism] offers a much richer pasturage and shade to the fancy, has so many cells with so many different kinds of honey, is s...o indulgent in its multiform appeals to human nature, that Protestantism will always show to Catholic eyes the almshouse physiognomy. The bitter negativity of it is to the Catholic mind incomprehensible. To intellectual Catholics many of the antiquated beliefs and practices to which the Church gives countenance are, if taken literally, as childish as they are to Protestants. But they are childish in the pleasing sense of "childlike",--innocent and amiable, and worthy to be smiled on in consideration of the undeveloped condition of the dear people's intellects. To the Protestant, on the contrary, they are childish in the sense of being idiotic falsehoods. He must stamp out their delicate and lovable redundancy, leaving the Catholic to shudder at his literalness. He appears to the latter as morose as if he were some hard-eyed, numb, monotonous kind of reptile. The two will never understand each other--their centres of emotional energy are too different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations..., with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be ...hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are... resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »