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“لەسەر هەزار دۆلار گرەوم کردووە کە لە ساڵی ٢٠٢٠دا هەڵەیەکی بایلۆجی یاخود تیرۆرێکی بایلۆجی دەبێتە هۆی مردنی ملیۆنان کەس.
لەماوەی چەند ساڵی داهاتوودا، نەخشەی بۆماوەی ژمارەیەکی زۆری ڤایرۆس و ئاژەڵان و ڕووەکەکان لە داتابەیسی تاقیگەکاندا ئەرشیف دەکرێت و دەخرێتە ئینتەرنێتەوە. نەخشەی بۆماوەیی ڤایرۆسی ئیبۆلا ئەرشیف کراوە؛ هەزاران کەسی لێهاتوو هەن دەتوانن بە بەکارهێنانی هێڵی دی ئێن ئەیی ئاساندەستکەوتوو ڤایرۆسەکە بەرهەم بهێننەوە.”
― Martin J. Rees, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond

“If you ask today what art is, what its function is, what the meaning of art is and why one should create art, the answer given oftentimes by Western philosophers of art and those who special- ize in modern aesthetics is ‘‘art for art’s sake.’’ The modern response is that you just create art for the sake of art; but this was never the answer of traditional civilizations where one created art for both the sake of attainment of inner perfection and for human need in the deepest sense—because the needs of man are not only physical, they are also spiritual. We are as much in need of beauty as of the air that we breathe.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, در جست‌وجوی امر قدسی

“So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one 'civilization', at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible.”
― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
― Ivan Illich