Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by John Schaar

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author John Schaar.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
John Schaar

John Homer Schaar, also known as Jack Schaar, was an American political theorist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schaar was born in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, and raised on a farm in a Lutheran family.

Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. — © John Schaar
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
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