The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl...e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, t...he real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have decided that manners shall consist entirely of morals. It is just possible that, in the days when morals consisted largely... of manners, fewer people were contaminated. You cannot shock a person practically whom you are totally unwilling to shock verbally; and if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. Above all, when we become incapable of the shock verbal, there will be nothing left for the unconventional people but the shock practical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ours...elves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same a...dults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »