Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.