If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k...nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social functio...n, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shame can make you so angry you can barely function. It is the rage you feel when someone slights you because of the color of your... skin, your accent or the clothes you wear. The ultimate in shame, however, is the humiliation, self-blame you feel when someone has raped or abused you. In that instance, you turn your shame or rage on yourself, asking "What have I done wrong to be so abused?" With guilt we know what the wrong is, the car was stolen, the curfew was broken, the contract was bogus. Usually guilt is less intense and destructive an emotion than shame because it is less involved with the perception and evaluation of the whole self. With guilt there is a motivation to change, to make amends, and pay the dues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suspect a demand for real change in power relations will occur only if women ... come to understand that their need for romances... is a function of their dependent status as women and of their acceptance of marriage as the only route to female fulfillment. I think we as feminists might help this change along by first learning to recognize that romance reading originates in very real dissatisfaction and embodies a valid, if limited, protest. Then by developing strategies for making that dissatisfaction and its causes consciously available to romance readers and by learning how to encourage that protest in such a way that it will be delivered in the arena of actual social relations rather than acted out in the imagination, we might join hands with women who are, after all, our sisters and together imagine a world whose subsequent creation would lead to the need for a new fantasy altogether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequen...ces--as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other--only in ...certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consci...ousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made;... Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! Now I hear them--ding-dong bell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man,... That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »