The advantage man enjoys, which makes itself felt from his childhood, is that his vocation as a human being in no way runs counter... to his destiny as a male. Through his identification of phallus and transcendence, it turns out that his social and spiritual successes endow him with a virile prestige. He is not divided. Whereas it is required of woman that in order to realize her femininity she must make herself object and prey, which is to say that she must renounce her claims as a sovereign subject. It is this conflict that especially marks the situation of the emancipated woman. She refuses to confine herself to her role as female, because she will not accept mutilation; but it would also be a mutilation to repudiate her sex. Man is a human being with sexuality; woman is a complete individual, equal to the male, only if she too is a human being with sexuality. To renounce her femininity is to renounce a part of her humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left.... Think it over ... no more syphilis, no more clap, no... more typhoid ... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the dignity as well as the prestige and influence of the United States are not to be wholly sacrificed, we must protect those w...ho, in foreign ports, display the flag or wear the colors of this Government against insult, brutality, and death, inflicted in resentment of the acts of their Government, and not for any fault of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. Peopl...e who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people, start feuds, fall prey to megalomania, grow touchy about their prestige and significance and go around completely devoid of self-criticism, bragging about the position and the influence they have at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no adv...antage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the ...enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Carpaccio in Venice, la Berma in Phèdre, masterpieces of visual or theatrical art that the prestige surrounding them made so al...ive, that is so invisible, that, if I were to see a Carpaccio in a gallery of the Louvre or la Berma in some play of which I had never heard, I would not have felt the same delicious surprise at finally setting eyes on the unique and inconceivable object of so many thousands of my dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So often, as the septuagenarian reflects on life's rewards, we hear that, "in the final analysis" of money, power, prestige, and m...arriage, fathering alone was what "mattered."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »