"The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority."

--

Neil Postman

#Acceptance Quotes #Membership Quotes #Maintaining Quotes

“It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.”
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
“I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.”
“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”
“One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.”
“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing
“While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.”

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