The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most peo...ple in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of... computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line.... Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Within the university ... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake o...f searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In abnormal times like our own, when institutions are changing rapidly in several directions at once and the traditional framework... of society has broken down, it becomes more and more difficult to measure any type of behavior against any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the sim...ple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion; ...society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »