There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance--physical, emo...tional, intellectual and every other way ... Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its "national pastime" pedestal in less than fifteen years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our king went forth to Normandy, With grace and might of chivalry,... The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call and cry Deo gratias, Deo gratias Anglia Redde pro victoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whip...ped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, ep...idemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture. I had to be a defenseless, powerless witness to the most inconceivable setback of humanity, its return to a barbarism we had thought had long since passed into oblivion with its deliberate and programmatic antihumane dogma.... (We had to witness) wars ... concentration camps, tortures, mass pillaging and bombings of defenseless cities ... bestialities (which had not been known for fifty generations).... But, paradoxically, I also saw the same human race rise to technical and intellectual heights never even dreamt of ... the conquest of the air through the airplane, the one-second transmission of the human word across the globe and, thus the conquest of space, the splitting of the atom, the conquest of the most treacherous diseases ... almost daily progress in making possible what was still impossible yesterday. Never before our time did humanity as a whole act more satanically and never did it accomplish such godlike deeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logicall...y the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor recei...ved, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These studies which stimulate the young, divert the old, are an ornament in prosperity and a refuge and comfort in adversity; they... delight us at home, are no impediment in public life, keep us company at night, in our travels, and whenever we retire to the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or eve...n merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »