The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Historically speaking, the most obvious and most decisive distinction between the American and the French Revolutions was that the... historical inheritance of the American Revolution was "limited monarchy" and that of the French Revolution an absolutism which apparently reached far back into the first centuries of our era and the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Nothing, indeed, seems more natural than that a revolution should be predetermined by the type of government it overthrows; nothing, therefore, appears more plausible than to explain the new absolute, the absolute revolution, by the absolute monarchy which preceded it, and to conclude that the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to lo...ok for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are stru...ck left-handed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of ne...ver being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away... the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reincarnation and resurrection have some things in common as ways of thinking. Both are affirmations that death is not decisive. B...oth presuppose a life, a Godward life-energy which, as the Bhagavad Gita puts it, "does not die when the body dies." Both address the mystery of that ongoing, irrepressible life that cannot be done in by death. But there are critical differences as well. Reincarnation is not what I as a Christian mean by resur rection. Reincarnation has to do with a wide understanding of life, one that includes both birth and death. Resurrection has to do with the meaning of life itself, no matter how long its trajectory might be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a balanced combination of the two principal energies from mother and father, a girl can both be in touch with her womanly str...engths and be a powerful force in the world--strong and nurturing, decisive and caring, goal- oriented and aware of the needs of others. She has the courage to voice what she thinks and feels and the strength to follow her destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faec...es--remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: "Anatomy is destiny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most decisive actions of our life--I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future--are, more often... than not, unconsidered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »