The best way to teach a child restraint and generosity is to be a model of those qualities yourself. If your child sees that you w...ant a particular item but refrain from buying it, either because it isn't practical or because you can't afford it, he will begin to understand restraint. Likewise, if you donate books or clothing to charity, take him with you to distribute the items to teach him about generosity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous.... Men are propelled ...by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If women were umpiring none of this [rowdyism] would happen. Do you suppose any ball player in the country would step up to a good...-looking girl and say to her, "You color- blind, pickle-brained, cross-eyed idiot, if you don't stop throwing the soup into me I'll distribute your features all over you countenance!" Of course he wouldn't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among th...e merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is h...ow to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and... consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were trying to find out a sound plan of distributing money; and every time we proposed to distribute it according to personal m...erit or achievement or dignity or individual quality of any sort the plan reduced itself to absurdity. When we tried to establish a relation between money and character we were beaten. When we tried to establish a relation between money and the dignity that gives authority we were beaten. And when we gave it up as a bad job and thought of leaving things as they are we found that they would not stay as they are.... The only way out of this is to give everybody the same, which is the Socialist solution of the distribution problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing ...another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »