"A Defence of Baby-Worship"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.
“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 406
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Original: (zh-CN) 学习有两种态度。一种是教条主义的态度，不管我国情况，适用的和不适用的，一起搬来。这种态度不好。另一种态度，学习的时候用脑筋想一下，学那些和我国情况相适合的东西，即吸取对我们有益的经验，我们需要的是这样一种态度
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946), p. 152 (in 2009 edition)
But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. It is one that my wife — who was the engine behind our family’s shift — and I have made.
"Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time", Truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-one-meal-at-a-time/ (10 November 2014)
2010s
