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We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 166
Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book X, 11
- Change
- Thinking
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
Terence McKenna1946–2000Psychedelic Society (1984)
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essays, Book I, Ch. 27, It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity
- Change
- Faith
The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization.
Will Durant1885–1981Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)
- Change
- History
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell1904–1987A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991), p. 18
- Change
- Life & Death
Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
- Change
- Character
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” … “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
- Change
- Responsibility
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Stefan Zweig1881–1942The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 6
- Change
- Philosophy
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Anthony Burgess1917–1993Earthly Powers (1980)
The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.
Saul Bellow1915–2005“A Second Half Life” (1991), p. 326
- Entertainment
At certain points in history it may be fashionable to be different and rebellious, but if a lot of people are playing that role, there is nothing different or rebellious about it.
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)