“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”
“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
“Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.”
“People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices”
“Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.”