"The language of the younger generation has the……" — Elizabeth Hardwick

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city… - Elizabeth Hardwick

"The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism."

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. — Oscar Wilde
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or… — Oscar Wilde
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One… — Ayn Rand
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this… — George Santayana
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the… — Charles Spurgeon

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