When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie SchwartzThe little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie SchwartzIf you donโt have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you donโt have much at all.
Morrie SchwartzWe've got a form of brainwashing going on in our countryโฆ. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Morrie Schwartz