„They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality—religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.“

— Octavia E. Butler

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„There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.“
— Frida Kahlo
„Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.“
— Albert Einstein