"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of oneâ€™s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."

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Source : R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

R. D. Laing

#Children Quotes #Learning Quotes #Men Quotes

“He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.”

Source : Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”
“I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.”
“The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.”
“As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let us remember his instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we do: "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."”
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
“Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.”

Source : "Fighting to Fulfill 'The Dream'” by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.
“True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.174
“There are no tough guys in wrestling.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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