The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.
We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.
I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.
I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.