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Life Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic…
- The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for…
- You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life…
- I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and…
- I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.
- Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle