Philosophy Quotes

"We cannot escape our implication in power relations."

"The other is not what we imagine but exceeds our imagination."

"Negritude is not a color, it is a way of being in the world."

"Culture is the memory of a people; to lose it is to lose oneself."

"The revolution begins in the mind before it takes to the streets."

"The intellectual bears witness; the poet bears truth."

"The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land."

"All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts."

"The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he can pick up his heels and go elsewhere."

"The land ethic reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land."

"The conservation movement must be reborn with a new philosophy."

"Land respect is not inherent in human nature."

"The problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam shovel, and we are proud of our yardage."

"An ethical obligation on the land is something so new in human history that our speculative philosophers have not yet devised a name for it."

"Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is lost."

"We abuse land because we do not see it as having intrinsic value."

"The land ethic is a fundamental shift in how we view our relationship to nature."

"The tragedy of the commons is an inescapable fact of modern life."

"The land knows nothing of the human concepts of rent, taxes, and profits."

"Environmental health requires the recognition of new ethical boundaries."

"The land ethic enlarges the boundaries of our moral community."

"The land ethic presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism."

"Without ethical guidance, our conservation efforts will ultimately fail."

"The European has not understood that his promiscuous relations have created a new situation in the world."

"Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched when the reality of Africa is taken into consideration."

"We must leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere."

"A new humanism cannot be limited to Europe; it must encompass the entire world."

"The colonized person is a Manichean allegory; he is divided into two parts."

"We must break with the colonizer's world, but not with the universal dimensions it contains."

"Man is not merely a biological phenomenon; he is also a conscious being."