"Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic."

-- Alan K. Simpson

#Humility Quotes #Traffic Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“Posing nude has to be one of my favorite things in the world.”
“Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed for espionage. Nevertheless, you veer away from perfect in matters of etiquette. Do not let these marks go to your head; there are many girls at this school who are better than you. Our biggest concern is what you get up to when we are not watching. Because, if nothing else, this test has told us you are probably spying on us, as well as everyone around you.”
“A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
“To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.”
“Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.”
“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.”
“Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”
“The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.”

Source : Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.69, PM Press

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