Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is q...uintessentially secret. It is the perfect crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This wee...k, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse; whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt. A scoffer who is rebuked will only hate you; the wise..., when rebuked, will love you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abus...e you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children are extraordinarily precious members of society; they are exquisitely alert, sensitive, and conscious of their surroundin...gs; and they are extraordinarily vulnerable to maltreatment or emotional abuse by adults who refuse to give them the profound respect and affection to which they are unconditionally entitled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at w...ork; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me it seems the man can see neither deep nor far, who is not sensible of his own misery, sinfulness, and dependence; who doth n...ot perceive, that this present world is not designed or adapted to make rational souls happy; who would not be glad of getting into a better state, and who would not be overjoyed to find, that the road leading thither was the love of God and man, the practising every virtue, the living reasonably while we are here upon earth, proportioning our esteem to the value of things, and so using this world as not to abuse it, for this is what Christianity requires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't ca...rry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originall...y to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »