Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which... remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube,... it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of ...course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success, can set up dictators.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban m...asses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life... just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, i...s, to suppose him so ... so here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the character ... of generosity and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rush to California ... and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to ...it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living. The philosophy and poetry and religion of such a mankind are not worth the dust of a puffball. The hog that gets his living by rooting, stirring up the soil so, would be ashamed of such company. If I could command the wealth of all the worlds by lifting my finger, I would not pay such a price for it.... What a comment, what a satire, on our institutions! The conclusion will be, that mankind will hang itself upon a tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man. After all th...e deductions which are to be made of for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die, whether James or whether Jonathan shall sit in the chair and hold the purse; after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently, which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »