You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
