She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman's natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction..., self-abnegation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other i...s family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us in...capable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I--I have a tendency to ... if I get too mellow, I--I ripen and then rot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three characteristics mark all confirmed expatriates: (1) slowness on the up-take, (2) the tendency to personalize the impersonal-...-interpreting in terms of politeness or of policy what should be kept clearly in terms of ideas, (3) the tendency to orientalize one's attitude toward women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but ...not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative... dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates--the inhabitants of marketing zones in the con...sumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on t...he parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own... natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »