“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.” LoveShouldHumansMeanSaidGodHuman BeingsSinTakenCommittedCommitTheeGod LoveCommandmentsGod Image Book:Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays
“Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.” IfsMenHumansMeanPersonsHas BeensMadeTwoSelfMomentsHuman BeingsCompassionFeetChildhoodWillingAdultsIdealsClaimsLaysRaisedCommitWitnessAdolescenceCompetenceInfancySelf MadeSelf Made Man Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner
“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.” MindHumansPoliticalDiesLosesHuman BeingsAbilityConditionsDestructionBlameRemainsSuicideCancerIllnessCommitMental IllnessInsaneOppressionDefinedSanityMechanismBentInabilityOngoing Book:Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma