“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”
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“Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“All things are Nothing to Me”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
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“There are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic; and rolling together all the woe of the world -- who could dare to decide whether its sight would necessarily seduce us and compel us to feel pity and thus double this woe?”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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