Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation thro...ugh very slight forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the t...rappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a fu...ture they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.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 day that the Black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he is within his rights, when his own freedom is being j...eopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie ... has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egy...ptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals.... The bourgeoisie ... draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization.... It has created enormous cities ... and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.... The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it, the law o...f the necessity of "self-overcoming" in the nature of life--the lawgiver himself eventually receives the call: "patere legem, quam ipse tulisti." In this way Christianity as a dogma was destroyed by its own morality; in the same way Christianity as morality must now perish, too: we stand on the threshold of this event. After Christian truthfulness has drawn one inference after another, it must end by drawing its most striking inference, its inference against itself; this will happen, however, when it poses the question "what is the meaning of all will to truth?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless d...id not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but cer...tain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »