"The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern."

“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

“claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.”

“Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.”

“Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.”

“...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.”

“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”

“When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.”

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“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”