The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution w...here love is not allowed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when tak...e the air I must.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract ideali...sm has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a spec...imen's left ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand adve...rtising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the so...ldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleas...antry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »