Quotes
Authors
Laurent A. Daloz

"A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing."

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (1986). “Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences”, Jossey-Bass

Laurent A. Daloz

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“A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own”
“You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.”

Source : Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.19, Felony & Mayhem Press
“From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub
“I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"”
“Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.”
“Death frames the high wire. But I donâ€™t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.”
“Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.”
“The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.”

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