Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control ...which enhances our self-respect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system ... which is neve...r a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... most of all [the actor] will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row o...f the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles ...of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual... responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given a...nd received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mother...s voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The connection between ad and sale, so direct in classified ads, or between ad and consumer contact, reasonably direct in the Janu...ary white sale ad, is very remote in the national consumer-goods ad. It is indirect in both space and time. The commercial for Coca-Cola or Alka Seltzer does not say how the customer can buy the advertised product; it does not typically announce a phone number to call or a place to shop. It takes for granted the consumer's shopping skills and it assumes the successful distribution of the product to retail stores. In time, it does not presume a quick response of customers to its efforts. It does not presume that the consumers it wants to reach will see any given showing of the ad or, seeing it, quickly respond by buying. It is a general reminder or reinforcer, not an urgent appeal to go out and buy. What the ad says or pictures, then, is obliged to be relatively placeless and relatively timeless. National consumer-goods advertising is highly abstracted and self-contained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting g...o of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do ...we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »