“There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” IfsWorldHumansI CanTodayHuman BeingsAnimalExistenceClearPlantSpeciesPoisonFinishingDisappearanceDensity Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.” HumansMatterHuman BeingsEconomyHappenedCenturyObjectsEvidenceWhat MattersCollecting Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.” WritingHumansSeemsPoliticalIndividualHuman BeingsNumbersCitiesClassCreationEnlightenmentEmpiresPhenomenonExploitationIntegrationPolitical SystemsLarge NumbersCastes Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
