Die Gegenwartskrise ohne eine vorherige Erneuerung des Geistes ökonomisch lösen zu wollen, ist Quacksalberei!

Erich Kästner, Fabian - Die Geschichte eines Moralisten (1931)

Bist du gerecht, so sind auch deine Werke gerecht.

Meister Eckhart

She supposed the young men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and atom bombs and the fact that there was so much hate in the world might have something to do with it.

Ann Petry, The Narrows (1953)

A daughter is a woman that cares about where she come from and takes care of them that took care of her.

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)

That was the sole lesson of their world: How to make waste, how top make machines that made more waste, how to make wasteful products, how to talk waste, how to study waste, how to design waste, how to cure people who were sickened by waste so they could be well enough to endure it, how to mobilize waste, legalize waste and how to sepise the culture that lived in cloth houses and shit on the ground far away from where they ate. And it would drown them one day, they would all sink into their own waste and the waste they had made of the world and then, finally they would know true peace and the happiness they had been looking for all along.

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)