Anyone who tells you that the sole purpose of education is the acquisition of negotiable skills is attempting to reduce you to a productive employee at work, a gullible consumer in the market, and a docile subject of the state.
~ William Deresiewicz
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No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
~ Peter Drucker
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
~ Peter Drucker
The nineteenth century gave birth to two sets of events of a very different order of magnitude: the machine age, a development of millennial range; and the market system, an initial adjustment to that development.
― Karl Polanyi
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell
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Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.
~ Franz Kafka
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
~ Franz Kafka
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
~ Franz Kafka
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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