In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace a...t Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far... in saying at once that she is politically suspect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between... our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am using it [the word 'perceive'] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that i...t exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ...abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one d...oes not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you... read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--socio...logically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »