The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disap...pointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our yo...uth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school, and learning to be mad, in a dream--what is this .../>life?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics--a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power-...-the women's programs are just as doomed as the men's are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that's the kind of success for women's sports that we want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With the breakdown of the traditional institutions which convey values, more of the burdens and responsibility for transmitting va...lues fall upon parental shoulders, and it is getting harder all the time both to embody the virtues we hope to teach our children and to find for ourselves the ideals and values that will give our own lives purpose and direction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and... existential death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings ...about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief lesson of the Depression should never be forgotten. Even our liberty-loving American people will sacrifice their freedom... and their democratic principles if their security and their very lives are threatened by another breakdown of our free enterprise system. We can no more afford another general depression than we can afford another total war, if democracy is to survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »