"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud, at high volume. That's what we do for a living - lucky bastards!" Bono

"If you live in a major urban area in America, there are thousands of kids that live in your city who will go to bed hungry tonight - but you don't give a shit about it. But, what's really sad is that you're more upset that I just said "shit" than you are about the hungry kids that live in your city." Tony Campolo

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy." Neil Postman

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." Neil Postman

"The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech." Edwin Friedman