You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your...
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Wilhelm Reich
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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Robert Frost
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Socrates
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
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Heather Brewer
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Bill Moyers
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.