Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing so...ciety for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to ra...ise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in Sa...n Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our kids will develop a work ethic only if we require them to pay a portion of the cost of some of the things they want. They'll l...earn to defer gratification the moment we stop routinely pulling out our wallets. And they'll learn self-discipline only if we care enough to enforce reasonable limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child's l...ife...But I've often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child's lives. There might be space to record dates she first shared or showed compassion or befriended a new student or thought of sending Grandma a get-well card or told the truth despite its cost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plaus...ible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans share with the English that conscientious befuddlement, that sanguine, profitable naivete, which has let the English mak...e wars and build empires and plot whole continents like kitchen gardens--all the time ignoring the cost in human terms because they knew that the fellahin and the dukawallahs, and even the homegrown workers and soldiers of their adventure, had sacrificed themselves proudly in a common cause, and not out of poverty or desperation or surrender. England is America's lesson in an imperial liberalism worn like horse blinkers against the disconcerting truth of why people work and suffer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now ...include my little dog Fala. Well, of course I don't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, learning that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him--at a cost to the tax payers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars--his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strike... out--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cloud was so dark that it needed all the bright lights that could be turned upon it. But for four years there was a contagion ...of nobility in the land, and the best blood North and South poured itself out a libation to propitiate the deities of Truth and Justice. The great sin of slavery was washed out, but at what a cost!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »