[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly ana...lyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it, and so hath already the whole future in... the bottom of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of hi...s pretended friends nor the sufferings of his real ones can ever again rend and torment his honest heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forge...t their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your griefs may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty and... honor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface ... but must pe...netrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart..., and which we know not ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public... accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that--but that isn't simple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »