What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their own... back; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly c...onflicts with force?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stron...ger and can get away with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us were ambivalent, but we don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right.... Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think I'd like to contribute to society in some way. I don't know what that might be. Right now, I just sort of give bums money ...on the street.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women of this century are neither idle nor indifferent. They are working with might and main to mitigate the evils which stare... them in the face on every side, but much of their work is without knowledge. It is aimed at the effects, not the cause; it is plucking the spoiled fruit; it is lopping off the poisonous branches of the deadly upas tree, which but makes the root more vigorous in sending out new shoots in every direction. A right understanding of physiological law teaches us that the cause must be removed; the tree must be girdled; the tap-root must be severed. The tap-root of our social upas lies deep down at the very foundations of society. It is woman's dependence. It is woman's subjection. Hence, the first and only efficient work must be to emancipate woman from her enslavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Are ye right there, Michael? are ye right? Do you think that we'll be there before the night?... Ye've been so long in startin', That ye couldn't say for sartin'-- Still ye might now, Michael, so ye might!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and c...ould move higher and higher and even--ultimately, God willing, one day--that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men's eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »