Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. Paul Goodman More Quotes by Paul Goodman More Quotes From Paul Goodman To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products. Paul Goodman exercisejobsmen The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows. Paul Goodman starsdreammen The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible. Paul Goodman realgoalgiving When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance. Paul Goodman communityartistmen The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions. Paul Goodman long-agoprofoundchildren When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. Paul Goodman feelingsaveragepeople A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist. Paul Goodman magazinesstylemen In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions. Paul Goodman airplanefightinggrief Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted. Paul Goodman stupidboyskids The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations. Paul Goodman spacelandtravel An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel Paul Goodman life-and-loveeyemen For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower. Paul Goodman soundbabymeaningful In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. Paul Goodman politicalworldfirsts There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. Paul Goodman practiceeducationculture It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. Paul Goodman inquirycraftscommitment The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into. Paul Goodman moviegrowing-upchildren A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute. Paul Goodman adequatecommunitysuccessful Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety. Paul Goodman anxietywastesight God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road. Paul Goodman miraclewould-bemen Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. Paul Goodman comedypowermatter
