The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us wh...o will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders,... its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your mouldy systems, your logic of 2 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are seeing an increasing level of attacks on the "selfishness" of women. There are allegations that all kinds of social ills, f...rom runaway children to the neglected elderly, are due to the fact that women have left their "rightful" place in the home. Such arguments are simplistic and wrongheaded but women are especially vulnerable to the accusation that if society has problems, it's because women aren't nurturing enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty..., he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to... approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetab...le, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like... dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is "to reject with indignation, the wile and guilty phantasy, that man can hol...d property in man." 2. To pay the laborer his hire, for he is worthy of it. 3. No longer to deny him the right of marriage, but to "let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband," as saith the apostle. 4. To let parents have their own children, for they are the gift of the Lord to them, and no one else has any right to them. 5. No longer to withhold the advantages of education and the privilege of reading the bible. 6. To put the slave under the protection of equitable laws. Now, why should not all this be done immediately? Which of these things is to be done next year, and which the year after? and so on. Our immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do. I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I kno...w? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses:... the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »