Stop Instigating Quotes & Sayings

Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life. — Adolf Hitler

Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture? — Judith Butler

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it. — Jess Walter

You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge. — Steve Jobs

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow. — Isaac Stern

I love art. It is uplifting. — Damien Hirst

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein

Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification. — Caterina Scorsone