I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of Stat...es. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[In the old religion of the Indians in New Mexico] the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into direct contact with the e...lemental life of the cosmos.... To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than d...o the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich ...and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor. As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully-restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who ... have already accep...ted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we d...o want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Mem...phis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »