As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Henry James

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an

John Dewey, Experience and Educa

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Lauren Oliver

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, on writin

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Jandy Nelson

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

Scott Ian