If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around. Richard Mitchell More Quotes by Richard Mitchell More Quotes From Richard Mitchell If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. Richard Mitchell slavelanguagemasters The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous. Richard Mitchell agencyemotionalchildren His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. Richard Mitchell techniqueusemind A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding. Richard Mitchell meditationheartrunning There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education. Richard Mitchell educationchildrensex A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL. Richard Mitchell mindbrainwriting
