Irreductible Gaulois Quotes & Sayings

I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps. — Andrey Kurkov

With enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe. — Jerry Stahl

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. — John Taylor Gatto

The myth of altruism as a motivating factor in our behavior could arise and survive only in a society bundled in the sterile gauze of New England puritanism and Protestant morality and tied together with the ribbons of Madison Avenue public relations. It is one of the classic American fairy tales. From — Saul D. Alinsky

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. — Helen Rowland

When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded in the feedback loop structure of the system. Running the same system harder or faster will not change the pattern as long as the structure is not revised. Growth as usual has widened the gap between the rich and the poor. Continuing growth as usual will never close that gap. Only changing the structure of the system - the chains of causes and effects - will do that. — Donella H. Meadows

Notice the difference between being in control and needing control. — Marilyn Suttle

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
— Robert Gallagher