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— Alfred Adler"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.
— Ernesto Cardenal
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
— Thomas E. Mann
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