"I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing."

-- Larry Norman

#Writing Quotes #Unseen Quotes #Results Quotes

“Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation”
“Jesus was a management expert too.”
“I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.”
“The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.”
“In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.”
“Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.97, Broadway Books
“Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?”
“Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.”

Source : Graham Masterton (2017). “Ritual”, p.115, Head of Zeus Ltd

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