“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. […] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense […] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined […].”
Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "Why do some societies make disastrous decisions", section "Disastrous values" (Penguin Books, 2011, pages 432-433, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.
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“In this world where selfishness and violence make noise, we value love.”
Original: (it) In questo mondo dove egoismo e violenza fanno rumore, diamo valore all'amore.
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From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
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