... this I conceive to be no time to prate of moral influences. Our men's nerves require their accustomed narcotics and a glass of... whiskey is a powerful friend in a sunstroke, and these poor fellows fall senseless on their heavy drills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, Which means whatever perfect thing she can,... In life, in art, in science, but she fears To let the perfect action take her part And rest there: she must prove what she can do Before she does it,--prate of woman's rights, Of woman's mission, woman's function, till The men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, "A woman's function plainly is ... to talk." Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by... nature. They are made by human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of o...ur imperfect development. It must be merged in instinct before we become fine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »