„We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.“

— Buckminster Fuller

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„Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.“
— Albert Einstein
„[Q: when do you think is it right to intervene in the affairs of another nation? ] I think there are conditions under which that would be possible. One basic condition is that nonviolent -- you mean violent intervention? -- that nonviolent means have been exhausted. That's one condition. A second condition is that the people of the country in which you're intervening support the intervention. Under those conditions -- and you can think of others -- intervention would be justified. However, we don't ever apply those conditions.“
— Noam Chomsky
„We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of some comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self. If we want to change the situation, we must begin by being our true selves.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.“
— Ramana Maharshi
„If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.“
— Douglas Adams