Paul Goodman

“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!”

“The beautiful is the experimental.”

“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves.”

“The problem is not to get people to express themselves, but to provide listening.”

“For a human being, the powerful urge to be useful is perhaps the most profound of all.”

“For me, the meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.”

“Most of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

“The first principle of freedom is the right to some corner of the world, some curious patronage, that is nobody's business.”

“There is only one curriculum, and that is what is happening. The curriculum is the ongoing experience.”

“A man has only one lifetime, and it is a shame to waste it on pursuits that are not socially useful.”

“We have the beautiful climate of Southern California and the beautiful people of New York and the beautiful roads of New England... but in the soul of man is the abomination of desolation.”

“Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.”