The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right... kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then th...ey owned both their wives and their wages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake.... He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong... Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science... is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To lift, to fetch, to drive, to shed, to pen, Are acts I recognize, with all they mean... Of shepherding the unruly, for a kind of Controlled woolgathering is my work too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »