There are always two parties;_x000D_ the establishment and the movement.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the dual nature of society, contrasting established norms with those who seek change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the inevitable tension between the status quo and those who challenge it. It suggests that in any societal context, there are those who maintain existing structures ('the establishment') and those who strive for transformation and progress ('the movement'). This dynamic is pivotal in understanding social change and human progress, reflecting the perpetual push and pull between tradition and innovation.
In practice
In a speech about social justice efforts, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out, there are always two parties: the establishment and the movement.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
On the mountains there is freedom!_x000D_ The world is perfect everywhere,_x000D_ Save where man comes with his torment.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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