Francesc Ferrer i Guardia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Children #School #Organization
Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#School #Government #Hands
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Men #Atheism #Needs
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Christian #Men #Atheism
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Atheism #Affection #Comrade
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Religious #Character #Political
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Atheism #Love One Another
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Praying #Exertion #Imaginary

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Francesc Ferrer i Guardia famous quotes

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