"As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality."

-- Franz Kafka

#Learning Quotes #School Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?”
“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.”
“Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.”
“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
“The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.”
“The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.”
“I was never up four percent.”

Source : "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.
“Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?”

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