"Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others."

-- Irene Hunt

#Children Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.”
“I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.”
“The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are youâ€™ll do your best thinking that way.”
“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
“Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me.”
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”
“The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.”

Source : Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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