Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it . Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory , Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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The nature of the marketplace is such that you have these little under-the-table payments, or whatever you want to call them, and a good-old-boy network that really works against the teachers.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must ...
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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
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Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
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Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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