We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.