June 14, 2013
"Faith is, among other things, the normal and necessary human response to those questions that can’t be answered on the basis of any form of proof, but have to be answered in one way or another in order to live in the world."

— John Michael Greer at The Archdruid Report. A Question of Values

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December 20, 2012
"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. “It’s A Dark Day In Our Nation”

Martin Luther King Jr.: “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” 

Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967

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October 24, 2012
"The challenge today’s engineer must confront — as, by extension, must each of us who is wrapped up in the modern scientific-technical project — is to wear Speer’s shoes and to ask honestly, without the benefit of historical hindsight, “What would I have done?"

— Roger Forsgren in The New Atlantis. The Architecture of Evil

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October 22, 2012
"Again, if the values of our culture don’t serve the poorest people, they don’t serve the potentially poor either – that would be you and me. The reality is that the culture that demands we always buy more and have more sucks for everyone."

— Sharon Astyk at Casaubon’s Book.So the Poor are People…Really?

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October 17, 2012
"Meaning, then, is something like a responsibility — not merely a need. It resides and resounds, like the human experience, between us. It transcends the narrow confines of the self — and connects us, through the power of grace and purpose, to the human world around us. It is the act of investing in what we profess to care about; in caring about what we profess to love; in not merely “expressing our values,” but valuing that which is worthwhile in lasting human terms, and so arcing the trajectory of not just our own tiny lives, but those of the people around us, towards the just-glimpsed sunrise of mattering."

— Umair Haque at Harvard Business Review. Wanting Meaningful Work Is Not a First World Problem

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October 6, 2012
"We learned too late that it is not the thought but readiness to take responsibility that is the mainspring of action. Your generation will relate thought and action in a new way."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer quoted by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern in The New York Review of Books. The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi

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October 6, 2012
"This points to Möbius’s fundamental confusion: he mistook scientific knowledge for wisdom, when in fact true wisdom, including an appreciation for the centrality of human love in its many forms, was what Möbius direly needed. And so, too, do we."

— Samuel Matlack in The New Atlantis. The Physicists at Fifty

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July 22, 2012
"These are sacrifice zones, areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. And we’re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed. And because there are no impediments left, these sacrifice zones are just going to spread outward."

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Chris Hedges on Moyers and Company. Chris Hedges on Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’

Book: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.

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June 7, 2012
"Memes - the conceptual units that in some popular accounts drive what is described as cultural evolution - are no more actually existing things than was phlogiston. But there are surely tropes that recurrently distort thinking, and the notion that evolution can be our guide in ethics and politics is one of them."

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John Gray in Literary Review. Life’s Greatest Achievement

Review of E.O. Wilson’s book The Social Conquest of Earth

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May 30, 2012
"I think the persistent hold of markets and market values – even in the face of the financial crisis – suggests that the source of that faith runs very deep; deeper than the conviction that markets deliver the goods. I don’t think that’s the most powerful allure of markets. One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that’s a mistake."

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Michael Sandel in The Guardian. Michael Sandel: ‘We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning’

The political philosophy professor on his new book, What Money Can’t Buy, and why economics needs to be seen not as a science but a moral philosophy

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