Society and the World

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

 

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

 

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter’s heart.

 

’Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

 

The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

 

Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

 

The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. 3

 

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.

We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. “My God, my God—” I said to myself, “it’s the Children’s Crusade.”

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes .

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to theirParents, or the Country, and for Making ThemBeneficial to the Public.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to theirParents, or the Country, and for Making ThemBeneficial to the Public.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

The children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the slaves of their households. They no longer rise when an elder enters the room, they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up the dainties at the table, cross their legs and tyrannize over their pedagogues.

The Family is a petty despotism; . . . a school in which men learn to despise women and women to mistrust men (much more than is necessary); a slaughterhouse for children (the firstborn succumbing to unskilled treatment, the lastborn to neglect). . . . Unfortunately, we cannot as yet do without it; and therefore we put a good face on the matter by conferring upon it the conventional attribute of sacredness, and impudently proclaiming it the source of all the virtues it has well-nigh killed in us.

The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attains years of discretion.

On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

Marcela loved me during fifteen months and three thousand dollars; nothing more.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.

Blood's not thicker than money.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!