Paul Goodman Quotes

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• Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids…
• It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is…
• Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to…
• No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to…
• Few great men would have got past personnel.
• Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
• There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food…
• It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the…
• In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
• It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the…
• When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach…
• The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony

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