I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Octavio PazEvery view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Octavio PazWe must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, Josรฉ Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
Octavio Paz