Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is not ...acknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A journal intime is a super-confidante to whom everything is told and confessed. For an engaged or married man to have a secret su...per-confidante who knows things which are concealed from his lady seems to me to be deliberate infidelity. I am as it were engaged to two women and one of them is being deceived...I would have my wife know all about me and if I cannot be loved for what I surely am, I do not want to be loved for what I am not. If I continue to write therefore she shall read what I have written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep ...the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the... consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I met a Californian who would Talk California--a state so blessed... He said, in climate, none had ever died there A natural death, and Vigilance Committees Had had to organize to stock the graveyards And vindicate the state's humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has done great things for us; it has also pushed us hopelessly back. For, not content with filling its own place, it has t...ried to supersede everything else. It has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a democracy--even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one--the greatest veneration one can show the rule of ...law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »