Leo Strauss Quotes
Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.
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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
