For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event. . . The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us. . . a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up
A goal properly set is halfway reached.