Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. ↗
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. ↗
We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ↗
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live. ↗