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What did you give your kids, besides a lottery of genes? A stance--that mix of bluff and confidence, backbone and wussiness that passes for personality or character. One talks less about ethics after third grade. Don't steal candy or hit other children, if they hadn't learned the costs of violence on their own.

~ Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland Education Emotional Legacy Ethics Morality Parenting

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

~ Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland Peace Silence Sleep

She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.

~ Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland Caveman Fertility Primitive Urges Procreation Sex

Don't be afraid of the dark. She tousled his hair tolerantly. I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

~ Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland Blindness Company Cowardice Female Superiority Loneliness

The sexual license prevalent among {the} Sixties generation was deplorable, but no more so than predatory Capitalism, with cruel slums alongsideabsurd affluence: affluence which paid for...depictions of the Holy Family as a form of expiation. Love was the basis for what he believed. Promiscuity certainly violated that polestar, yet caring for others, even in fooling around--which was not to justify it--topped dog-eat-dog Capitalism.

~ Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland Catholic Workers Theology Love Trumps Hate Morality
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