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“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.”

Children Important Real Reality School Imagination Clear Imagine Air Society Exercise Deny Contrary Concrete Detached Freedom And Happiness

Author:Paulo Freire

“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.”

Opportunity Nations Freedom Clear Society Paradox Ignored

Book:Prefaces TO PEACE

Source: Prefaces TO PEACE

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

“Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.”

Way Community Clear Society Duty Achievement Conscience Overcoming Constant Loyalty Devotion Usefulness Discouragement Clear Conscience

Author:Grover Cleveland

“To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.”

Form Understanding Knowing Path Clear Society Ignorance Habit Behavior Investigation Multitudes

Book:The Book of Mencius: (abridged)

Source: The Book of Mencius: (abridged)

“We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.”

“The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.”

Men World Certain Known Clear Seeing Society He Man Patterns Enlightened Testimony Faithfulness Admirable Sufficiency Certain Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.”

Ifs Kind Values Parent Clear Society Members Thrive Acceptable

Book:Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations

Source: Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations

“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”

Young Evil Strong Clear Society Stupid Possibility Weak Intelligent Misery Superiors Division Misfortunes Inferiors Avoiding Mock

Author:Xunzi