Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty--necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who... have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such e...xceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thirty-five years ago, when I was a college student, people wrote letters. The businessman who read, the lawyer who traveled; the ...dressmaker in evening school, my unhappy mother, our expectant neighbor: all conducted an often large and varied correspondence. It was the accustomed way of ordinarily educated people to occupy the world beyond their own small and immediate lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is ...a gathering, the impression changes--we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themse...lves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes,...... it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. ...No virtuous man--that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense--has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, an...d when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about. The lecture was as harmless as moonshine to them. Whereas, if I had read to them the biography of the greatest scamps in history, they might have thought that I had written the lives of the deacons of their church. Ordinarily, the inquiry is, Where did you come from? or, Where are you going? That was a more pertinent question which I overheard one of my auditors put to another once,--"What does he lecture for?" It made me quake in my shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »