
“Unilateralism is one of the most serious obstacles to achieving a just world order.”
2018, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)
“Unilateralism is one of the most serious obstacles to achieving a just world order.”
2018, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
“This last faculty is one of the most essential and elusive”
Section 90
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: Exceptional intelligence, noble character and originality seem neither indispensable nor perhaps desirable. The main requirements seem to be: audacity and a joy in defiance; an iron will; a fanatical conviction that he is in possession of the one and only truth; faith in his destiny and luck; a capacity for passionate hatred; contempt for the present; a cunning estimate of human nature; a delight in symbols (spectacles and ceremonials); unbounded brazenness which finds expression in a disregard of consistency and fairness; a recognition that the innermost craving of a following is for communion and that there can never be too much of it; a capacity for winning and holding the utmost loyalty of a group of able lieutenants. This last faculty is one of the most essential and elusive.
December 6, 2014, Gloria Allred: The Battle Over Sexual Assault is the ‘Civil Rights Movement of Our Time’, May 15, 2014, Time magazine, Gloria Allred http://time.com/100055/campus-sexual-assault-gloria-allred/,
Also misattributed to John Steinbeck.
Source: The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, v. 1-3
Volume I, chapter II, section 17.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Variant: Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
Context: You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
"Goodbye to All That", 1970 in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 123.
Specifically, as gender polarization in a relationship decreases, the experience of it improves. Without that rebalancing, even the most perfect content will unravel increasingly. Once the process is balanced, the magic of having ideal content is no longer necessary. The rebalancing process which creates a relationship free of polarizing gender defenses is clearly difficult and threatening initially in the same way that giving up an addiction seems to be. Once achieved however, a relationship free of distortion, false illusions, resentment, and hopelessness truly becomes possible.
What Men Still Don't Know About Transforming Their Relationships, pp. 194–198
What Men Still Don't Know About Women, Relationships, and Love (2007)
Source: Nations and Nationalism (1983), Chapter 8, The Future Of Nationalism, p. 114
“The frontier that remains is is the interior one, the most forbidding and mysterious frontier.”
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 7, The Possibility of Extravagant Waste, p. 189.