In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or com...mon nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to commun...icate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter..., but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"It is with Love as with Cuckoldom"Mthe suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any t...hing about the matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were asked what are the greatest obstacles to the speedy enfranchisement of women I should answer: There are three; the first... is militarism.... The second obstacle is the unconscious, unmeasured influence upon the estimate in which women as a whole are held that emanates from that most debasing of our evil institutions, prostitution.... [ellipsis in source] The third great cause is the inertia in the growth of democracy which has come as a reaction following the aggressive movements that with possibly ill-advised haste enfranchised the foreigner, the Negro and the Indian. Perilous conditions, seeming to follow from the introduction into the body politic of vast numbers of irresponsible citizens, have made the nation timid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed ...to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »