I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
No theory is good unless it permits not rest but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
To be a poet is a condition not a profession.
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth wisdom or wealth the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom pride and conditional love things may look good for a while but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
The war on drugs is wrong both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid too reckless and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.