What I Want My Kids To Know #30
”There comes in all our lives a time … when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.” –Marcel Proust
What I Want My Kids to Know #29
“Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.” –Leonard Bernstein
What I Want My Kids To Know #28
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Primo Levi
What I Want My Kids To Know #27
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.–Primo Levi
What I Want My Kids To Know #26
“If life is not intoxicating, it’s nothing.” -Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift
What I Want My Kids to Know #25
“Those who hunt for fun and games are like ‘madmen shooting flaming arrows of death.’” —Shabbetai Elhanan ben Elisha del Vecchio, b. 1707
