The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. – Bernadine Dohrn
Thats been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But its worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. He requires whatever it needs to be completely his own master. – Robert Graves, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, 1946
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. – Jerome Bruner