A meal for your mind

I have come across some interesting quotes which I think will get you thinking about the whole state of affairs in which we live in. Some people see the world as it is and say ‘why.' We need to see the world as it could be and say ‘why not’...

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

~Octave Mirbeau

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

~Robert C. Savage

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

~Lily Tomlin

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.

~Anonymous

All of these quotes caught my attention as more then applicable to what we are discussing. Although they may seem pessimistic to most people, I find the discovery of a problem more liberating then deterring. The more clearly we define the flaws within society the more efficiently we can fix them.