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“Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.”
Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, ASCD
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“So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.”
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“You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.”
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“The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.”
Source : Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press
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“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.”
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“We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.”
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“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
Source : Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Coincidance: A Head Test”
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“I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.”
