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It is interesting that society’s two most powerless groups, children and the elderly, have both been made into sentimental symbols. In the child’s little hungry hands grasping for life, joined to the old person’s frail slipping fingers hanging onto it, you have one of the commonest advertising metaphors for intense appreciation. Little children and the … Continue reading
“Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” – Vera, or The Nihilists Life is a precious thing. Most people get to spend their entire life living their dreams. Then there are others whose lives get cut short. We hear a lot of sayings such as “live life to the fullest” or … Continue reading
“And of course one can hardly afford to be put down too often, or one is beat, one has lost one’s confidence, one has lost one’s will, one is impotent in the world of action … indeed closer to dying, and therefore it is even more difficult to recover enough energy to try to make … Continue reading
“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but … Continue reading
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” In today’s society, people care what other people think of themselves. When … Continue reading
“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence, which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God.” Everyone says that money buys happiness, well it might for a little bit but then eventually people will get bored. People that they can buy freedom which is not possible. … Continue reading
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.” We … Continue reading
“Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.” Men are portrayed as the provider of the family. They go out and work to bring in the money … Continue reading
“Girls do not get paid half enough at any work. Box factories are no worse than other places. I do not know anything a girl can do where by hard work she can earn more than $6 a week.” In Nellie Bly’s essay she is comparing young girls to white slaves because they are working … Continue reading
“And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man’s dominion in the East.” As the narrator is standing there, looking at the elephant, he realizes that he does not want to kill it. He has the … Continue reading
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