She has been man's slave. He has been educated at her expense. If he bought the ice cream, she was expected to pay for all his lux...uries in reduced wages. She has done the drudgery and borne the insults of those who wronged her, assuming to be her protector.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even assuming the possibility of greater knowledge among responsive young children of a mass media age, it is questionable whether... an increase in verbal knowledge and expression has much effect on the capacity for understanding in depth or on the style of behavior of children with no more than five years of living and growing behind them.... The drawings of contemporary fives are no more complex, the capacity for judgment no sharper, the feelings of helplessness when they get sick or into trouble no less painful than they have ever been, as far as we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it--low, vulgar, meddling with ever...ything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion--and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greed...y and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured, and killed until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspici...on, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive e...ither ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the tru...e nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it ...is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »