Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt... cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cleaning lady deals with the patient on a human level. She's scrubbing the floor in the room and the patient says, "My son did...n't come to visit me today." The cleaning lady smiles and says, "I know how you feel. I know how I'd feel if my son didn't come to visit me if I was sick." The cleaning lady doesn't see the patient as a renal failure or an ileostomy. She just sees a poor lady who's sick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are your daughters, your sisters, your sons, your nurses, your mechanics, your athletes, your police, your politicians, your fa...thers, your doctors, your soldiers, your mothers. We live with you, care for you, help you, protect you, teach you, love you, and need you. All we ask is that you let us. We are no different. We want to serve, like you. Need love, like you. Feel pain, like you. And we deserve justice, like you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a slum?... it is something that mostly exists in the imaginations of middle-class do-gooders and bureaucrats: people who d...o not have to live in them in the first place and do not have to live in what they put up afterwards once they have pulled them all down. One person's slum is another person's community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people needed to be rehoused, but I feel disgusted and depressed when I see how they have done it. It did not suit the planner...s to think how they might deal with the community, or the individuals that made up the community. All they could think was, "Sweep it away!" The bureaucrats put their heads together, and if anyone had told them, "A community is people," they would not have known what they were on about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »