I suppose it would be nice to say ... that ... I realized I was making abortion-rights history.... But the honest truth is that no...thing like that even occurred to me. I was simply at the end of my rope. At a dead end. I just didn't know what else to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, i...s at the same time its ruling intellectual force. No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of him,--of his rare qualities!--such a man as it takes ages to make, and ages to understand; no mock hero, nor the represen...tative of any party. A man such as the sun may not rise upon again in this benighted land. To whose making went the costliest material, the finest adamant; sent to be the redeemer of those in captivity; and the only use to which you can put him is to hang him at the end of a rope! You who pretend to care for Christ crucified, consider what you are about to do to him who offered himself to be the saviour of four millions of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express ...themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you in San Quentin, who wrote, "Being German my hero is Hitler,"... instead of "Sincerely yours," at the end of long, neat-scripted letters demolishing the pre-Raphaelites:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They have been foolish enough to put at the end of all this earnest the old joke of a diploma. Let every sheep keep but his own sk...in, I say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. ...That's all there is to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your f...rustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »