To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes... of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who ha...s only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of th...e race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman's happiness and development are of more importance than all man's institutions. If constitutions and statute laws stand in t...he way of woman's emancipation, they must be amended to meet her wants and needs, of which she is a better judge than man possibly can be. If church canons and scriptures do not admit of women's equal recognition in all the sacred offices, then they must be revised in harmony with that idea. If the present family life is necessarily based on man's headship, then we must build a new domestic altar, at which the mother shall have equal dignity, honor and power; and we do not propose to wait another century to secure all this; the time has come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present century has not dealt kindly with the farmer. His legends are all but obsolete, and his beliefs have been pared away b...y the professors at colleges of agriculture. Even the farm- bred bards who twang guitars before radio microphones prefer "I'm Headin' for the Last Roundup" to "Turkey in the Straw" or "Father Put the Cows Away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. That was present in the apes long before the brain ...began to develop. Nor is it the use of tools. It is something altogether new, a previously unknown quality: self-awareness. Animals, too, have awareness. They are aware of objects; they know this is one thing and that another. But when the human being as such was born he had a new and different consciousness, a consciousness of himself; he knew that he existed and that he was something different, something apart from nature, apart from other people, too. He experienced himself. He was aware that he thought and felt. As far as we know, there is nothing analogous to this anywhere in the animal kingdom. That is the specific quality that makes human beings human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate moment--the During--that is doomed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing ... is so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, it... was kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state ...of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked faci...al resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »