No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the pun...ishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--desp...ite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction..., to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely ...is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selec...tive inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because relationships are a primary source of self-esteem for girls and women, daughters need to know they will not lose our love ...if they speak up for what they want to tell us how they feel about things. . . . Teaching girls to make specific requests, rather than being indirect and agreeable, will help them avoid the pitfalls of having to be manipulative and calculating to get what they want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiated ...as to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importa...nce of their contents to the constant mind of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »