By the "mud-sill" theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible.... According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be--all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out i...n every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule.... Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The animals are much more content with mere existence than we are; the plants are wholly so; and man is so according to how dull a...nd insensitive he is. The animal's life consequently contains less suffering but also less pleasure than the human's, the direct reason being that on the one hand it is free from care and anxiety and the torments that attend them, but on the other is without hope and therefore has no share in that anticipation of a happy future which, together with the enchanting products of the imagination which accompany it, is the source of most of our greatest joys and pleasures. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a free country the national life stands in direct relation to the home life, the public life reacts upon the family, and the fa...mily furnishes the material for the State. The lives and the characters of our children are influenced by the manners and methods of our Government, and to say that mothers have no right to be concerned in the politics of our country is simply saying that the life and character of our children are of no concern to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; an...d at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman... is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying ...some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »