People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.