Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism... is an indispensable element of culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and... a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having child...ren is not an end in itself. You don't at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of... his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to prepare your child to think as he gets older. You want him to be critical in his judgments. Teaching a child, by your ...example, that there's never any room for negotiating or making choices in life may suggest that you expect blind obedience--but it won't help him in the long run to be discriminating in choices and thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what contrives to create critical moments in parenting stems from a fundamental misunderstanding as to what the child is c...apable of at any given age. If a parent misjudges a child's limitations as well as his own abilities, the potential exists for unreasonable expectations, frustration, disappointment and an unrealistic belief that what the child really needs is to be punished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that cri...tical opinion is often orphaned in the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical... moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical. ...The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking ...for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »