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Knowledge – that is, education in its true sense – is our
best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether
engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken
leaders.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, Boston (October 31, 1932)
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over
and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Journals (1841)
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapong Papers (1903)
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters
of Life’s longing for itself. - Kahlil Gibran, “On Children,”
The Prophet (1923)
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and
strive ruthlessly to fulfill them. - Sigmund Freud, “Dreams of the
Death of Beloved Persons,”The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically
illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted
to being little devils – not theological demons inspired by the
Evil One, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the Unconscious.
- Bertrand Russell, “The Virtue of the Oppressed,” Unpopular
Essays (1950)
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men,
and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. - John Updike,
“A Foreword for Younger Readers,” Assorted Prose (1965)
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form
of truth.- John F. Kennedy, address, Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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