Techniques cannot be neutral. Those who talk of neutrality are precisely those who are afraid of losing their right to use neutrality to their own advantage.

Paulo Freire

Well, I know,” she said, “you will pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so well have a lot more of them. Any they’ll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

George Eliot