Bernard Iddings Bell quotes
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“The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.”
-- Bernard Iddings BellSource : Bernard Iddings Bell (1933). “Men Wanted!”
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“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself....”
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“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.”
-- Bernard Iddings BellSource : 1950 In Life,16 Oct.
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“To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.”
-- Bernard Iddings BellSource : Bernard Iddings Bell (1947). “A Man Can Live ...”
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“The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.”
-- Bernard Iddings Bell
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Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
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“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
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“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”
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