#era

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#also #any #artisan #been #capital

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #big #generally #make #mistakes

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes. ↗

— Bill Joy

#i #mistakes #spelling #trouble

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#co-operation #earlier #extraordinary #i #mentioned

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. ↗

— Amy Grant

#always #getting #great #i #like

I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience- to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. ↗

— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

#psychology #therapy #experience

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#astray #belonged #blinded #generation #grew

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area? ↗

— Asa Gray

#any #area #assume #continuous #evidence

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #better #deliberately #dumb #especially