Doe Quote by Dora Russell

“Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.”

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One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have…

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We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in…

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

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I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual…

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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

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Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian…

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Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

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Comfort is bought at too high a price.

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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To…

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Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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