Sancho

“Ha llegado el tiempo de decir ¡basta! al desarrollo. Convierte el presente de las mayorías sociales en un futuro siempre pospuesto. Ha llegado la hora de regresar al presente. Que el presente sea digno espejo para el futuro. El mito ha muerto, pero del cadáver insepulto brotan ya todo género de plagas. Ha llegado la hora de proceder al solemne funeral.”
― Gustavo Esteva

“It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument—their intellect—which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.”
― Galen Strawson

“There is a story. . . which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.”
― Desmond Tutu

“The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely that I can’t go along with it.”
― Quentin Crisp