"the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it."

-- Shulamith Firestone

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.”
“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016
“The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.”

Source : Song: Bop Gun
“Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel, promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) or denouncing our soldiers. I ask from them to stop contributing to these specific NGOs. But, unfortunately, it does not help. I do not want countries that are friends of ours to contribute to such organizations.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.”
“The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.”
“I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.”

Source : Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2007.
“You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.”

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