In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world.... One might even think the par...anoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is so...meone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals ..., had ... attained a kind of immortality. You ...couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder; assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your children are not here to fill the void left by marital dissatisfaction and disengagement. They are not to be utilized as a su...bstitute for adult-adult intimacy. They are not in this world in order to satisfy a wife's or a husband's need for love, closeness or a sense of worth. A child's task is to fully develop his/her emerging self. When we place our children in the position of satisfying our needs, we rob them of their childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, dest...ruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects. Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist, he imagined, standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams--"a ...mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty." To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success: the artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and "re-embody" it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlim...ited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilou...s. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, life may sometimes seem unfair to middle children, some of whom feel like an afterthought to a brilliant older sibl...ing and unable to captivate the family's attention like the darling baby. Yet the middle position offers great training for the real world of lowered expectations, negotiation, and compromise. Middle children who often must break the mold set by an older sibling may thereby learn to challenge family values and seek their own identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »