"Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him."

-- Paul Gauguin

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“To be great, art has to point somewhere.”
“Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.”
“Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.”
“Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.”
“Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press
“The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.
“As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!”
“The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.”

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