You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.