"My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated."

-- Edward Said

#Men Quotes #Silence Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.”

Source : Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.177, Temple University Press
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”
“Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want”
“Human memory is short and terribly fickle.”
“In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? Theyâ€™re allowed to think.”
“I think I have made just one picture that I really like...”
“I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”

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