My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. George Woodcock Read Quote
It doesn’t really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I’ve done it on several occasions. George Woodcock Read Quote
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. George Woodcock Read Quote
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn’t understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned. George Woodcock Read Quote
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. George Woodcock Read Quote
I don’t believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn’t pay anything, and that sort of thing. George Woodcock Read Quote
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. George Woodcock Read Quote
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don’t depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. George Woodcock Read Quote
