Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring ne...w life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride--the temptation blithely to d...eclare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »