He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have t...o relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply... because he has a drum major's uniform on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is onl...y a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners are of more importance than laws.... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refi...ne us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as th...e blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the ...greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the co...urage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend let loose, and sneezed. The air carefully gathered itself together again, after being locally at odds with prevailing cl...imate and momentarily boycotting the trade winds. The germs were assimilated, like immigrant Jews within the overall commercial prosperity of uniform America. My friend, who had recoiled, was now well distributed in equal blocks of masses behind the reformed nose, whose recent adventure was put aside with even temper as but the sowing of wild oats. The nose, to compensate for its rash act, became a model of decorum, and was elevated as a moral precept: seen, but not heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and the ...damp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »