If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace... can never be secure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political inter...ests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living a...gain. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterose...xual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have progressed far beyond the point of no return. They're in medical schools and law schools, and they're inching into the ...upper echelons of the corporate world. They've entered the political arena and are even beginning to make inroads into that ultimate male enclave, the U. S. Congress. They've had a taste of equality, even a taste of power. They've experienced the shift in the balance of power in a marriage that occurs when a wife is earning as much money as her husband. They've experienced the autonomy that comes from being in control of their own reproductive lives. They will almost certainly have to fight for these things again and again, losing ground, gaining ground, running in place. But they will never go back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True spoiling is nothing to do with what a child owns or with amount of attention he gets. he can have the major part of your inco...me, living space and attention and not be spoiled, or he can have very little and be spoiled. It is not what he gets that is at issue. It is how and why he gets it. Spoiling is to do with the family balance of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspect...ive into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impr...opriety onto our own side of the scale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »