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“... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.”

Done Moments Political Lost Speak Teacher Society Limits Authority Educator Learners Lawlessness

Author:Paulo Freire

“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”

Ifs Done Interest Community Teach Society Corruption Dues Temptation Engaged Enterprise Personal Interest

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

Inspirational Heart Done Motivational Nations Community Society Wounds Helping Others Heal Volunteer Comforting Volunteerism Work To Be Done Heal The World Volunteerism And Service Volunteer Work

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

War Done Peace History Progress Society Terrible Excuse Anti War Antiwar Terrible Things Make Peace Not War Peace Not War

Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”

“Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”

Ifs World Littles Done Would Be Evil Names Community Society

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.”

Years Done Government Attention Economy Impossible Society Economic Policy Years Ago Difficulty Fifty Worthwhile Simplest Economic Policy Payoff Worthwhile Things

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.”

Men May War Done Facts Winning Peace Society Modern Events Roots Conclusion Soil Modern War

Book:The Civil War

Source: The Civil War