And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey ...his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too "personal" style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words a...ppear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why--but the editorialists forget it--terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable clas...s of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ...ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will, I am sure, agree with me that ... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have... been really intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolera...ble old burden of sex ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That was a way of putting it not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,... Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. The poetry does not matterLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »