"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on fear   

"The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge."

Foucault, Michel on judgment and judges   

"The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)."

Foucault, Michel on intelligence and intellectuals   

"We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it."

Unknown, Source on appreciation
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on parents and parenting
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"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on children
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"You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

Gibran, Kahlil on children
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"Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

Mencken, H. L. on alimony
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"There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on children   

"You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child."

Dogen on children
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"She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

Shakespeare, William on seduction
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"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."

Friedan, Betty on children
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