"More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Education Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Children Quotes

“I've always had an underdog perspective.”
“Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”

Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Holier Than Thou)". TV Series, May 23, 2005.
“I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.”
“She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.”
“I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.”

Source : John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company
“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.”
“I write as if to save somebodyâ€™s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”
“If marathoners finish they win.”

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