It was a sweet view--sweet to the eye and the mind. British verdure, British culture, British comfort, seen under a sun bright, wi...thout being oppressive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hebraism contains no eternal realm of essence, which Greek philosophy was to fabricate, through Plato, as affording the intellectu...al deliverance from the evil of time. Such a realm of eternal essences is possible only for a detached intellect, one who, in Plato's phrase, becomes a "spectator of all time and all existence." This ideal of the philosopher as the highest human type--the theoretical intellect who from the vantage point of eternity can survey all time and existence--is altogether foreign to the Hebraic concept of the man of faith who is passionately committed to his own mortal being. Detachment was for the Hebrew an impermissible state of mind, a vice rather than a virtue; or rather it was something that Biblical man was not yet even able to conceive, since he had not reached the level of rational abstraction of the Greek. His existence was too earth-bound, too laden with oppressive images of mortality, to permit him to experience the philosopher's detachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a cla...ssification, and that all classifications are oppressive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; ...and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we have largely forgotten the physical discomforts of the itching, oppressive garments of the past ... then we have mercifully ...forgotten, too, the smells of the past, the domestic odours--ill-washed flesh; infrequently changed underwear; chamber-pots; slop-pails; inadequately plumbed privies; rotting food; unattended teeth; and the streets are no fresher than indoors, the omnipresent acridity of horse piss and dung, drains, the sudden stench of old death from butchers' shops, the amniotic horror of the fishmonger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates... to the city. There, finding others likeminded, one re- establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that wome...n share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal noti...ons of masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incompr...ehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »