Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are qualities that characterize t...he "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail a...nd to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the profes...sions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness ...which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science... in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and s...trategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences what... belonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what yo...u've become yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great ...poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who inv...ested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »