Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a… — El-P Copy Share Image
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to… — Kurtwood Smith Copy Share Image
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see;… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
