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“It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.”

People Stills Political Hurt Society Statements Repeats Spite Rejected Obviousness

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.”

Men Stills Society Solitude Curse

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.”

Men Humans Stills Animal Society Reach Out Superfluous Extravagant

Book:Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”

Stills Two Choices Evil Society Voting Lesser Evil Two Evils Not Voting Lesser Of Two Evils

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.”

Ifs World Stills Attention Support Society Equality Titles Crush Engines Absurdity Steam Aristocracy Dressed Up Steam Engines

Author:Stendhal

“We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.”

Giving Stills Whole Certain Asks Poverty Society Produce One Day Raises Moved Misery Aids Eras Agony Highways Beggar Edifice Root Cause

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.”

“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.”

Stills Age Order Dark Darkness Environment Society Fields Down And Environmental Planes Commerce Insects Dark Ages Predator Spray Pesticides

Author:Paul Hawken

“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.”

“It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.”

People Stills Speak Society Remains Mental Health Silent Illness Actresses Mental Illness Odd Paradox Openness Topics Paradoxical Unspeakable

Author:Glenn Close

“It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.”

“In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.”

Stills Society Style Late Spite Speeding

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”

Children Made Stills Waiting Realizing Pleasure Education Doors Tree Society Ready Adults Surprise Childlike Christmas Tree

Author:Karl Kraus