For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation, and refuse...s a bribe no matter how great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wis...e and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. O...f all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I tell you the solemn truth that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one o...f the axioms of physics."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My idea is that the world outside--the so-called modern world--can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive insti...nct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors--the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets--and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus mostly on how we might have been partly or wholly to blame for what might have been less than a perfect, problem- free... childhood, our guilt will overwhelm their pain. It becomes a story about us, not them. . . . When we listen, accept, and acknowledge, we feel regret instead, which is simply guilt without neurosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanity--that you're always being suppressed if you're inspired and always... being pushed into the corner if you're exceptional. I won't be cornered and I won't stay suppressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can anyone be interested in war?--that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over t...he mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well- chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it--this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »