I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of... the "human figure divine" but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have for years been intrigued with the ways in which Jews and southerners are alike--stepchildren of an anguished history. From ...the period before the Civil War, southerners have used Old Testament analogies to portray themselves as "the chosen people," surrounded and outnumbered but destined to survive and triumph against overwhelming odds. This analogy has endured deep in the southern psyche, influencing subconsciously its reactions to events. For example, in 1967, during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, polls showed that the South was caught up in military fervor and admiration for the lightning victory of the Israelis. It was almost as if Moshe Dayan had become the Israeli Stonewall Jackson, outthinking and outfighting his Arab foes, just as the boys in gray had done in the Shenandoah Valley against vastly superior numbers in the 1860s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The u...ltimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great Christian drama of the Passion cannot be tragic because the perfection of Jesus eliminates hybris or any shortcoming, ne...ither pity nor terror in Aristotle's sense is possible because of our inability to identify our own flawed human nature with the image of perfect goodness suffering absolute injustice, and the final victory is always certain. Drama with a human protagonist, insofar as it is Christian, cannot be tragic, since the issue has been settled once and for all by the victory of Jesus in His Incarnation, and His Atonement makes all subsequent private atonement unnecessary for the Christian, who needs only some combination of Faith and Grace to participate in the antecedent act. Dante properly recognized this in identifying his great poetic drama as a divine comedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain respects, particularly economically, National- Socialism is nothing but bolshevism. These two are hostile brothers of w...hom the younger has learned everything from the older, the Russian excepting only morality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might b...oth hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It must be a peace without victory.... Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquish...ed. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »