#nation

To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215). ↗

— Manning Marable

#design

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#design

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#dream #imagination #dreams

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#imagination #lovers #madmen #reason #dreams

He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#books #dreams #heroes #imagination #reading

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. ↗

— Bob Black

#neo-situationism #philosophy #political-philosophy #political-science #post-left-anarchy

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#indoctrination #education

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act ↗

— Plato

#education #inspiration #international-relations #kurt-hahn #service

Nothing in this world can take the place of PERSISTENCE. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#persistence #education