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François-René de Chateaubriand
“There is no power but in conviction.”
François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie Du Christianisme, 1

Ivan Illich
“Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-ended, exploratory use of acquired skills, for which I will reserve the term "liberal education." The main reason for this is that school is obligatory and becomes schooling for schooling's sake: an enforced stay in the company of teachers, which pays off in the doubtful privilege of more such company. Just as skill instruction must be freed from curricular restraints, so must liberal education be dissociated from obligatory attendance. Both skill-learning
and education for inventive and creative behavior can be aided by institutional arrangement, but they are of a different, frequently opposed nature.”
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

Leonard Ravenhill
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
Leonard Ravenhill

Thomas Wolfe
“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”
Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

Sinclair Lewis
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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