Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965
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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCEvery individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbDo that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCIt’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938