"You canâ€™t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Crush Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing man will civilize.”

Source : "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.
“While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.”
“The dose makes the poison.”
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”
“But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.”
“I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.”
“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”
“Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.”

Source : Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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