As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of ar...rangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, I'...ve spent my life at it. You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. "I will be a saint" means I will despoil myself of all that is not God...; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead fathe...r.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohi...bit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their livin...g standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more a...ffluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courtin's manual of etiquette of 1671 explains: "These little people are allowed to amuse themselves without anyone troubling to s...ee whether they are behaving well or badly; they are permitted to do as they please; nothing is forbidden them; they laugh when they ought to cry, they cry when they ought to laugh, they talk when they ought to be silent, and they are mute when good manners require them to replay. It is cruelty to allow them to go on living in this way. The parents say that when they are bigger they will be corrected. Would it not be better to deal with them in such a way that there was nothing to correct?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »