"The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!"

-- Charles Eisenstein

#Dog Quotes #School Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.”

Source : "Ken Loach's 'Wind That Shakes the Barley' Wins Top Prize at Cannes". www.nytimes.com. May 29, 2006.
“There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.”

Source : Georges Vantongerloo (1948). “Paintings, sculptures, reflections”
“Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.”
“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”

Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
“The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration....”
“They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.”
“People learn from people they love.”
“The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.”

Source : "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.

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