Attitudes

Famous quotes containing the word attitudes:

    “... he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man’s pre- eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father’s advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”
    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    “Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.”
    —Milovan Djilas (b. 1911)