Masculinity can only be experienced, achieved, recognized, and embodied in opposition to femininity. When men posit sex, violence,... and death as elemental erotic truths, they mean this--that sex, or fucking, is the act which enables them to experience their own reality, or identity, or masculinity most concretely; that violence, or sadism, is the means by which they actualize that reality, or identity, or masculinity; and that death, or negation, or nothingness, or contamination by the female is what they risk each time they penetrate into what they imagine to be the emptiness of the female hole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn t...o do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it ...is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of crea...tion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As today's children impress adults with their sophisticated ways, adults begin to change their ideas about children and their need...s. . . . No longer need adults withhold information about the harsh realities of life from children. . . . Rather, they begin to feel it is their duty to prepare children for the exigencies of modern life. . . . As adults act less protectively . . . and as they expose children to the formerly secret underside of their lives--adult sexuality, violence, injustice--those former innocents grow tougher, perforce, less playful and trusting, more skeptical--in short, more like adults. We have come full circle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so l...eisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy..., but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrence...s that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation ...and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »