The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentiall...y moral men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. F...or, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, who follows blind instinct, strives to duplicate t...he reality of nature. The first one elevates art to its highest peak; the second one lowers it to its basest level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On fields all drenched with blood he made his record in war, abstained from lawless violence when left on the plantation, and rece...ived his freedom in peace with moderation. But he holds in this Republic the position of an alien race among a people impatient of a rival. And in the eyes of some it seems that no valor redeems him, no social advancement nor individual development wipes off the ban which clings to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other th...ing is black except a coffin--a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy ... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, particolored comm...onwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;... This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbèd ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling--'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathèd worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a priv...ileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contrac...ting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »