You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wis...e and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to b...ecome a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that a pacifist can undertake--but it is a very great deal--is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to anoth...er human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the neve...r seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[A toad-eater] is a metaphor taken from a mountebank's boy who eats toads in order to show his master's skill in expelling poison.... It is built on a supposition (which I am afraid is too generally true) that people who are so unhappy as to be in a state of dependence are forced to do the most nauseous things that can be thought on to please and humor their patrons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The City of New York is currently undergoing a grave experiment that affects the comfort and, on occasion, the safety of even the ...most casual visitor. The experiment consists in seeing whether a city of that size can be operated on a far smaller amount of money than would make its life tolerable and a still smaller amount than would make it agreeable. The richer New Yorkers ... are cooperating with an enthusiasm that the affluent rarely show for social experiment, and at great personal expense. They are paying for private security guards in unprecedented numbers and costly private schooling for their children ... and they are accepting numerous other costs and inconveniences in order to show that private affluence is consistent with public squalor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In many ways, Twain and Waugh were strikingly similar. Even within the group of great humorists, they belong together. Both anti-e...rotic imaginations, they stress male comradeships and represent love-relationships most conventionally and sentimentally. They both show society as dominated by fools and bores, and fate as characterized by betrayal and disaster--life as subordinate to death. For that reason, no doubt, both are much interested in militarism and the machinery of death, as well as in the military and manly virtues. Both men tell jokes that belong to the bar where magistrates gather, managers, captains, men who take responsibility for law and order. Both were quickly irritated by most real clubs and bars. One might say that both belonged to the same cultural type.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole of natural theology ... resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causes... of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love, Broke out, to show... Its bright incipience sailing above, Still promising to solve, and satisfy, And set unchangeably in order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings ...about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »