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Marcus Aurelius quote image about dealing with difficult peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together." Marcus Aurelius
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Hannah Arendt quote about thinking, morality, and preventing catastrophesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down." Hannah Arendt
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Quote image attributed to Ivan Illich about telephone communication and privacyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with - or protect - the privacy of their exchange." Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich quote about schools, compulsory education, and self-directed learningCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before." Ivan Illich
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