"And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal)."

-- Joanna Russ

#Class Quotes #Use Quotes #May Quotes

“For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.”
“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.”
“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.”
“Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.”
“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”

Source : Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
“I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.”
“I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin
“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

Source : Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 1995.

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