Kevin J. Rogers

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”
― Michel Foucault

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”
― Junius, Junius: including letters by the same writer under other signatures : To which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes : and his private letters to Mr. H. S. Woodfall

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
― Thomas Carlyle