We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
[As a young teenager] read ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.
Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.
In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.
P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
