Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many... prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetua...te it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that people refuse, or are unwilling, to go back to a place where once they have been happy? If you ask them, they will ...say that they do not want to spoil a beautiful memory, or that nothing can ever be the same (a wonderful thing can only happen once!).... Actually I think they may feel afraid that they will be disillusioned, if indeed they have had to convince themselves that a privately dull or ugly event was indeed a glamourous one. Or they may suspect that they are less attractive than they wanted to be, or that the other people are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he pr...ivately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He [Johnson] talked of the heinousness of the crime of adultery, by which the peace of families was destroyed. He said, "Confusion... of progeny constitutes the essence of the crime; and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who does it. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the sight of God: but he does not do his wife a very material injury, if he does not insult her; if, for instance, from mere wantonness of appetite, he steals privately to her chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this.... A wife should study to reclaim her husband by more attention to please him."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental pro...tection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus, far from the beaten highways and the dust and din of travel, we beheld the country privately, yet freely, and at our leisure....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, ...or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] ps...ychologically capable of turning either way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »