Shojin Quotes & Sayings

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a "disciplinary technique," and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the "disciplinarian culture." This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy. — Noam Chomsky

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. — Alban Berg

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression. — Gertrude Stein

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. — Douglas William Jerrold

The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you. — Rene Denfeld

The heart is a home; love should take up all of the rooms. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou

I'm about to sing the song for the future. — Stephanie Mills

The Challenge in Life is not to have the absence of Fear, but to have the Courage to overcome it.-RVM — R.v.m.