E. G. Marshall Quotes

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.

Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

Thoughts are things...treat them accordingly.

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward.

Finding your life less than perfect is a waste of your time.

To yourself you are what you think. To the outside world, you are what you do.

Remember that when you love yourself, you are a greater gift to someone else.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.