It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civi...l liberty or the capacity for self-government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are bothered, I suppose, by the idea that you can't possibly believe in miracles and mysteries, and therefore can't make a go...od wife for Hazard. You might just as well make yourself unhappy by doubting whether you would make a good wife to me because you can't believe the first axiom in Euclid. There is no science which does not begin by requiring you to believe the incredible."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry... And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will not find science annihilating personality from the government of the Universe and making of God as ungovernable, unintell...igible, blind, often destructive physical force; you will not find jurisprudence formulating as an axiom the absurdity that man and wife are one, and that one the man--that the married woman may not hold or bequeath her own property save as subject to her husband's direction; you will not find political economists declaring that the only possible adjustment between laborers and capitalists is that of selfishness and rapacity--that each must get all he can and keep all that he gets, while the world cries laissez faire and the lawyers explain, "it is the beautiful working of the law of supply and demand;" in fine, you will not find the law of love shut out from the affairs of men after the feminine half of the world's truth is completed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so lo...ng that we've forgotten there's any other way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the su...bject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I w...ould rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »