America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental... in establishing the colonies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing stan...dards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.... By itself, the law can never create anything better.... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the genera...l principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing stric...t causal connections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... until now, it is a mentally isolated, a truely [sic] colonial position, which has been occupied by the women physicians of Ame...rica. When a century shall have elapsed after general intellectual education has become diffused among women; after two or three generations have had increased opportunities for inheritance of trained intellectual aptitudes; after the work of establishing, in the face of resolute opposition, the right to privileged work in addition to the drudgeries imposed by necessity, shall have ceased to preoccupy the energies of women; after selfish monopolies of privilege and advantage shall have broken down; after the rights and capacities of women as individuals shall have received thorough, serious, and practical social recognition; when all these changes shall have been effected for about a hundred years, it will then be possible to perceive results from the admission of women to the profession of medicine, at least as widespread as those now obviously due to their admission to the profession of teaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered c...ity queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and ... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously str...uctured dams that block the flow of social progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despite ...the fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If tragedy is made effective by provoking the phenomenon which psychology calls "empathy"Mby causing us, that is to say, actually ...to participate in the feelings of another--pure comedy must achieve its effects by completely inhibiting that phenomenon and by establishing a sense of separateness from the creatures whose antics we observe. Such sympathy as we feel for them is lofty and patronizing, like our sympathy for a child whose sorrows we know to be (however intense for him) transitory and trivial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »