"It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak."

-- Guy Debord

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Age Quotes

“The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.”
“Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.”
“I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.”
“I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it looked like, you know, like a jaguar as opposed to a cheetah.”

Source : "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.
“I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.”
“I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.”
“Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.”
“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.”

You may also like:

Asger Jorn
Painter
Gil J Wolman
Musical Artist
Gilles Deleuze
Philosopher
Henri Lefebvre
Philosopher
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
Raoul Vaneigem
Writer
Theodor Adorno
Sociologist