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Parerga and Paralipomena • Arthur Schopenhauer“ "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
The Return of the King • J.R.R Tolkien“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)