People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. – Richard Wilkinson
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
