William Coperthwaite quotes

“I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.”
-- William Coperthwaite

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.116, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.”
-- William Coperthwaite

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.”
-- William Coperthwaite

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

“I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.”

Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”