"Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love."

-- Alice Walker

#People Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”
“Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.”
“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”
“Wants keep pace with wealth always.”
“If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.”
“Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.141, University of Michigan Press
“The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.”
“Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.”

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