"What does it mean to be human and alive?" (Wade Davis 2008)

"We're living through a time when virtually half of humanity's intellectual, social and spiritual legacy is been allowed to slip away. This does not have to happen! These peoples are not failed attempts of being modern [...] these are dynamic, living, peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces. That's actually an optimistic observation because it suggests that if human beings are the agents of cultural destruction, we can also be - and must be - the facilitators of cultural survival!"

"[...] a negative approach in political life replaces a positive approach [...]" (Gramsci 2007 [1975]: 260)

"[...] with the result that one thinks of what 'not to do' rather than of what 'to do' concretely. The obsession with the rival is such that one sense the rival dominating one's own personality"

From Prison Notebooks, Vol III, by Antonio Gramsci (2007 [1975]: 260)

"Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all." (Morrison 1978)