It must be a peace without victory.... Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquish...ed. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of his... child's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Passadumkeag we found ... earnest politicians, to wit,--white ones, I mean,--on the alert to know how the election was likely t...o go; men who talk rapidly, with subdued voice, and a sort of factitious earnestness you could not help believing, hardly waiting for an introduction, one on each side of your buggy, endeavoring to say much in little, for they see you hold the whip impatiently, but always saying little in much. Caucuses they have had, it seems, and caucuses they are to have again,--victory and defeat. Somebody may be elected, somebody may not. One man, a total stranger, who stood by our carriage in the dusk, actually frightened the horse with his asseverations, growing more solemnly positive as there was less in him to be positive about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that histo...ry has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In social halls a favored guest In years that follow victory won,... How sweet to feel your festal fame In woman's glance instinctive thrown: Repose is yours--your deed is known,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the world ...that we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »