Midge Decter Quotes

• There comes a time
  to join the side
  you're on.

  Midge Decter

  Sides, There Comes A Time

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

  Midge Decter

  Inspiring, Powerful, Ideas

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• We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

  Midge Decter

  Strong, Growing Up, Maturity

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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• It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .

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  Children, Sound, Generations

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

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  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• El odio de la cultura juvenil a la sociedad adulta no es un juicio desinteresado, sino un rechazo aterrorizado a engancharse a la, si se quiere, cadena ecológica de respirar, crecer y morir. Es la exigencia, en otras palabras, de seguir siendo niños.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• La Liberación de la Mujer lo llama esclavitud, pero la auténtica verdad sobre la revolución sexual es que ha hecho del sexo un ámbito casi caóticamente ilimitado y, por tanto, ingobernable en la vida de las mujeres.

  Midge Decter

  Sex, Real, Revolution

  The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation ch. 2 (1972)

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• We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

  Midge Decter

  Light, Oil, Middle East

  "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

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