Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altog...ether open.... Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were asked what are the greatest obstacles to the speedy enfranchisement of women I should answer: There are three; the first... is militarism.... The second obstacle is the unconscious, unmeasured influence upon the estimate in which women as a whole are held that emanates from that most debasing of our evil institutions, prostitution.... [ellipsis in source] The third great cause is the inertia in the growth of democracy which has come as a reaction following the aggressive movements that with possibly ill-advised haste enfranchised the foreigner, the Negro and the Indian. Perilous conditions, seeming to follow from the introduction into the body politic of vast numbers of irresponsible citizens, have made the nation timid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for the ages has signified cun...ning, intimating that the state is a trick?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
None can re-enter there-- No thief so politic,... No Satan with a royal trick Steal in by window, chink, or hole, To bind or unbind, add what lacked, Insert a leaf, or forge a name, New-face or finish what is packed, Alter or mend eternal fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the ...human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.... The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they c...ompare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the... courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politic man ordained Imagination as the fateful sin.... Grandmother and her basketful of pears Must be the crux for our compendia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »