The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into the ...heritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows thi...ngs to take a new and natural order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym... for bankruptcy.... The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is th...ere her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless--for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[P]ermanent defenses are a non-recurring charge against governmental budgets while large armies continually rearmed with improved ...offensive weapons constitute a recurring charge. This, more than any other factor ... is responsible for governmental deficits and threatened bankruptcy. The way to disarm is to disarm.... [Congress and the President strive] for the improvement of social conditions, for the preservation of individual human rights, and for the furtherance of social justice.... It is in order to assure these great human values that we seek peace by ridding the world of the weapons of aggression and attack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men gen...erally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage... stands on the unelastic plank of famine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessar...ily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »