The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be d...ictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free ...at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of a...n Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--The man who has stood on the Acropolis, And looked down over Attica; or he... Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis, Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh, May not think much of London's first appearance-- But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought becaus...e it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much mo...re intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners would be the standards of conduct that prevail in a group, large or small, and hence they would change from group to group... and year to year. Morals would be defined as the standards that determine the relations of individuals with other individuals, one with one--a child with each of its parents, a husband with his wife, a rich man with a poor man (not the rich and the poor)--and also the relations of any man with himself, his destiny, and his God. They are answers found by individuals to the old problems of faith, hope, charity or love, art, duty, submission to one's fate ... and hence they are relatively universal; they can be illustrated from the lives of any individuals, in any place, at any time since the beginning of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the... course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundred ...pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »