Tuesday, March 29, 2005
“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.”
- Freda Adler (b. 1934), American educator and author: “Sisters in Crime”, 1975.
“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
- George Konrád (b. 1933), Hungarian writer and politician: on surviving as a writer in Communist Hungary, in the “Sunday Correspondent” (London), April 15, 1990.
“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
- Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), American author: “Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century”, 1990.
- Freda Adler (b. 1934), American educator and author: “Sisters in Crime”, 1975.
“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
- George Konrád (b. 1933), Hungarian writer and politician: on surviving as a writer in Communist Hungary, in the “Sunday Correspondent” (London), April 15, 1990.
“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
- Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), American author: “Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century”, 1990.
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