... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other th...ings, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his si...lence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is my decree. The bodies of those who died well and bravely by my side shall be delivered to the City of the Dead. Fine linen... and armor shall be their burial garments. They shall rest in tombs of stone, and, for their comfort in the second life, they shall have ample treasure. To each man, three measures of gold and nine measures of silver; one vessel each of onyx and alabaster; food and wine in plenty. All this and all honor shall each man enjoy in the second life. There we shall meet again, to stand side by side and serve. 'Til then, farewell. The gods of Egypt have spoken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as tho...se behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for pra...ctical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These words are dedicated to those who survived because life is a wilderness and they were savage... because life is an awakening and they were alert because life is a flowering and they blossomed because life is a struggle and they struggled because life is a gift and they were free to accept itLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today,... Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when oth...ers are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »