"Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on World
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"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."

Antisthenes on Argument
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"The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power."

Berger, John on Envy
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"I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor."

Berger, John on Arts and Artists
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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."

Berger, John on Poverty and The Poor
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"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."

Allen, Fred A. on Cities and City Life
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