I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the t...est of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, ...he spouts in easy times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, bet...ter than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged"Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom... of political frustration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heard the beat of centaur's hoofs over the hard turf As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.... "He is a charming man" "But after all what did he mean?"-- "His pointed ears. ... He must be unbalanced,"-- "There was something he said that I might have challenged."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has done great things for us; it has also pushed us hopelessly back. For, not content with filling its own place, it has t...ried to supersede everything else. It has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascert...ained--then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His moving impulse is no flabby yearning to teach, to expound, to make simple; it is that "obscure inner necessity" of which Conra...d tells us, the irresistible creative passion of a genuine artist, standing spell-bound before the impenetrable enigma that is life, enamoured by the strange beauty that plays over its sordidness, challenged to a wondering and half-terrified sort of representation of what passes understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children's attention. While ...parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political stru...ctures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »