Michaela

“I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it." - Gabriel Marez”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“I believe it is critically important for all Westerners to realize that the idea of the earth not being alive is a new idea. Even today, that view is far from universal and may represent a minority viewpoint, advocated mainly by people who live in Western technological cultures. Failing to see the planet as alive, they have become free of moral and ethical constraints, and have benefited from exploiting resources at the earth's expense. But if the majority of people in the United States, Western Europe, and the Soviet Union are comfortable regarding the earth as a huge, dead rock, this is emphatically not true of those Indians and aboriginal peoples throughout the world who continue to live as they have for thousands of years, in direct relationship to the planet.”
― Jerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations

“... in antidemocratic systems, the function of education is to produce obedient citizens structurally obliged to enter the workforce without bargaining power, and ideologically trained to think that the dominant group represents history’s greatest civilisational forces.”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”
― John F. Kennedy