Quotes About Janusz Korczak

#1. Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,

Diane Ackerman

#2. Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

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#3. I am allowed to have healthy self-esteem.

Amy Poehler

#4. Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

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#5. We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

David Cameron

#6. My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

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#7. A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people
not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now
today.

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#8. The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

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#9. Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

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#10. I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

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#11. Life bites like a dog.

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#12. Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

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#13. The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

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#15. In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#16. I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

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#17. Dare to dream ... something will always come of it

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#18. I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

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#19. Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter.

Denise Grover Swank

#20. You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.

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#21. We take our last look at the killing noise.

Jimi Hendrix

#22. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

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#23. When does the loneliness of old age begin?

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#24. Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

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#25. To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

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#26. If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

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#27. Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

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#28. Children, being small and weak, have little market value.

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#29. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

Darren Shan

#30. I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

John Wilmot

#31. The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

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#32. I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

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#33. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

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#34. If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

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#35. Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

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#36. Take a look at the world and laugh

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#37. The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful,

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