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“We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.”

“We are staring at each other, forgetting about the harsh reality and I can feel my heart reacting. He touches my cheek and the familiar electric current runs through me. His hands are warm, caressing my pale skin. His deep-blue eyes are filled with serenity and passion. I keep telling myself to breathe, but I am unable to exhale the air from my lungs. Then he leans forward and his lips touch mine, increasing the temperature in my body. He kisses me gently, trying to break his way through, testing to see if I let him in. His lips are sweet and warm. A few seconds later it is all over and he disappears once again, leaving me uncontrollably awake and trying to gather my wild thoughts.”

“We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and recognizing the consequences of their being humiliated are by no means intellectual matters; otherwise, their importance would long since have been generally recognized.”

“We are still evolving. Right now, however, the most potent form of evolution is not biological evolution of the sort described by Darwin, but cultural evolution, in which we develop and pass new ideas and behaviors to our children, friends and others. Some of these novel behaviors, especially the foods we eat and the activities we do (or don't do), make us sick.”

“We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.”

“We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.”

“We are still relatively free in our purchasing decisions. However, the biggest infringement is caused by our monetary system and the taxes and other charges being forced upon us. Taking our money away via taxes, other charges and inflation highly limits our freedom because we are no longer able to enjoy the fruits of our labor. The stronger members of society, ¨the rich¨, have their ways of getting around the compulsory purchase of taxes. Inflation is even beneficial to them because they can use the non-backed currency to buy real assets which will make them even richer.”

“We are still too far from the true definition of space and a true definition of fact. To prove that there is a curvature of space, we must undeniably prove and show that we know and understand what space is and that we know and understand what a fact is philosophically, linguistically, and physically. Consequently, we may say we have considered and know all this, but the “fact” remains the “fact.” It is not whether we say we understand all this and have considered all that but if we have genuinely and undeniably proved and understood what we declare.”