Ryan Adkins

“The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.”
― Kenneth Minogue, On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue

“do nothing in the office; why should he stay there? In plain fact, he had now become a millstone to me, not only useless as a necklace, but afflictive to bear. Yet I was sorry for him. I”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

“everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect. Invariably, it shapes the consumer who values institutional commodities above the nonprofessional ministration of a neighbor. Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

“Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.”
― Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict