Self-assertion

Self-assertion, not justice or a clear view of the future, was the crucial element.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Self-assertion, not justice or a clear view of the future, was the crucial element.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Self-assertion; consciousness of the; development of; display; preservation; sufficiency; surrender; satisfaction and dissatisfaction; the divided; the negative; the permanent; the social; types of the.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

Self-assertion is especially characteristic of their self-appointed leader, Ezra Pound, in whose case it is undoubtedly an inheritance from Walt Whitman, whom he has lately acknowledged as his "pig-headed father."

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Self-assertion, however, is nothing but the operation of communicated and committed animation, and self-preservation nothing but the postponement of the day of surrender.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

Self-assertion presupposes contact with other individuals.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Self-assertion, in philosophic speculation as elsewhere, views the world as a means to its own ends; thus it makes the world of less account than Self, and the Self sets bounds to the greatness of its goods.

The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1921

Self-assertion, especially in political lines, was the main programme, and behind Douglass came Elliot, Bruce, and Langston, and the

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

Self-assertion may appear to succeed, but it never really wins.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

Self-assertion, especially in political lines, was the main programme, and behind Douglass came Elliot, Bruce, and Langston, and the Reconstruction politicians, and, less conspicuous but of greater social significance Alexander Crummell and Bishop Daniel Payne.

III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others. William Edward Burghardt 1903