“L'Occidente, e al suo interno l'Italia, saprà sopravvivere anche a questo lungo inverno se attingerà alle qualità del suo modello, non se ammirerà chi lo odia. Il lungo inverno può preludere a una stagione di creatività, in cui troveremo risposte innovative ai nostri problemi energetici ed economici”
Source: Il lungo inverno: False apocalissi, vere crisi, ma non ci salverà lo stato
“We live in a society where people only want to see what their eyes like to see and only want to hear what their ears like to hear.”
“We make a great mistake, sir, when we suppose that all people are capable of self-government. We are anxious to force free government on all; and I see that it has been urged in a very respectable quarter, that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty over all the world, and especially over this continent. It is a great mistake. None but people advanced to a very high state of moral and intellectual improvement are capable, in a civilized state, of maintaining free government; and amongst those who are so purified, very few, indeed, have had the good fortune of forming a constitution capable of endurance.”
Source: Speech of Mr Calhoun, of S. Carolina, on the Bill to Provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports
“we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom. society can no longer focus – my poems keep drying up and blowing away.”
Source: Distant Visions, Again and Again
“The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.”
Source: Violeta
“I am an author of new hashtags.”
“Across history, human societies have devised numerous ways to show that an individual has been punished for cheating rules. These signals range from scarlett letters, to shaved heads, to amputated fingers.”
Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
“To what end does one liberate one's country if afterward there is no meaningful goal in life, no goal for which it is worthwhile to be free? If a person no longer finds any meaning in their life, it makes no difference whether they waste away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if they can use their freedom to create something meaningful is it relevant that they should be free. That is why finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else, and why the process of individuation must be given priority.”
“Human communities -power- themselves with resources. Material resources such as water, fuel, iron ore, wheat stocks, etc., are essential for this. However, psychological resources -knowledge, loyalty, willpower, communal bonds, emotional commitment, etc. - are necessary as well.”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources
“Without psychological resources, communities lack the motivation or trust necessary to work together to solve common problems and achieve communal goals.”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources