Edwin Dalorzo

“One writes out of a need to communicate and to commune with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives happiness. One writes against one’s solitude and against the solitude of others. One assumes that literature transmits knowledge and affects the behavior and language of those who read.… One writes, in reality, for the people whose luck or misfortune one identifies with—the hungry, the sleepless, the rebels, and the wretched of this earth—and the majority of them are illiterate.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“The assurance would be there, he thought, the assurance that life had a special place in the great scheme of existence, that one, no matter how small, how feeble, how insignificant, still did count for something in the vast sweep of space and time.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

“S has secular humility to the degree that: (i) S recognizes that she shares with all humans the important limitations of helplessness, fallibility, and moral frailty; (ii) S recognizes her relative insignificance in the grand scheme of things; and (iii) in virtue of (i) and (ii), S is (a) resistant to misplaced pride in her excellences and achievements, envy, and indignation at being slighted by others and (b) disposed toward forgiveness, gratitude, open-mindedness, low self-focus, and feelings of awe.”
― Mark Alfano, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

“Terrorism is mostly theater. It is a strategy of weakness adopted by those who lack access to real power. During the past decade, terrorists killed every year just a few dozen people in the United States. At the same time, obesity and related illnesses killed tens of thousands of Americans annually. For the average American, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s pose a far deadlier threat than al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind