A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

Deprive the taboo rules of their original context, and they at once are apt to appear as a set of arbitrary prohibitions, as indeed they characteristically do appear when the initial context is lost, when those background beliefs in the light of which the taboo rules had originally been understood have not only been abandoned but forgotten.

In such a situation the rules have been deprived of any status that can secure their authority, and, if they do not acquire some new status quickly, both their interpretation and their justification become debatable. When the resources of a culture are too meagre to carry through the task of reinterpretation, the task of justification becomes impossible. Hence perhaps the relatively easy, although to some contemporary observers astonishing, victory of Kamehameha II over the taboos (and the creation thereby of a vacuum in which the banalities of the New England Protestant missionaries were received all too quickly).

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

[Doctors and the studys authors suspect that when the Red Sox are in the playoffs, patients who can defer an ER visit will do so.] The heart attacks, the strokes, they will come no matter whats going on, ... The patient with pneumonia, the patient with an asthma attack will say, Maybe I can ride this out at home.

The heart attacks, the strokes, they will come no matter what's going on, ... The patient with pneumonia, the patient with an asthma attack will say, 'Maybe I can ride this out at home.'

[Doctors and the study’s authors suspect that when the Red Sox are in the playoffs, patients who can defer an ER visit will do so.] The heart attacks, the strokes, they will come no matter what’s going on, ... The patient with pneumonia, the patient with an asthma attack will say, ‘ Maybe I can ride this out at home. ’