Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists. – Herbert Read
