I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
Freya StarkGeneralizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
Freya Starkthe main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
Freya StarkThe symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
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