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“And we claim superiority because of the values we say our government exalts: equality, free speech (only a government which can conceive of censoring people’s speech would have to include that, because, naturally, obviously, anyone can speak their mind)…” – From “Western Civilization,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved 

Can you imagine the gall it took for our Revolutionary War heroes to tell Great Britain, “This land belongs to us; we are no longer your subjects” – while, at the same time, they were killing off the people the land actually belonged to and making them into subjects of their new tyranny? – From “Right Colonization” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved 

“This culture cannot exist without all of the problems. It would be impossible to cure the problems without fundamental changes to the culture; put another way, it would be impossible to cure these problems and still have this culture.” – From “Wisdom,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved 

“I hear U.S. citizens say, about citizens of other countries, ‘You try to help them, and they don’t have any gratitude. Let them try to do it without our help’ (as if they will find they cannot possibly do ‘it’ without the great and wise U.S. guiding them, and they will come crawling back when the U.S. withdraws its help).” – From “Supporting Genocide,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved 

“New Agers have the same hierarchies as the rest of our culture, and people are at the top. In keeping with the rest of the culture, their hierarchies assume not only that some things hold more intrinsic value than others, but also that we, as a culture, have the knowledge and wisdom to determine and rank these intrinsic values.”–From “The Intention of New Age,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved 

“There’s no such thing as ‘survival of the fittest,’ unless you define everything that survives as ‘the fittest,’ in which case you have said nothing; you have just jumped aboard the perpetually spinning wheel which is the circularity of.. [our culture’s] logic.” – From “Science,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved

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“This book causes you to reexamine everything you know. It forces you to look past your cultural lense and concentrate on existing only as you were truly intended to exist.”

“…If you want to realize that not all humans want to control their environments, look at how indigenous peoples lived in every diverse climate…Obviously, those living in Alaska (for example) created houses which would allow them to live in the cold without freezing to death, but this isn’t the same thing as controlling the environment.” –From “Control,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights reserved

“You may say, ‘All that nature watching sounds great, but I have a job to do and bills to pay. I can’t spend all my time watching nature; I wish I could.’ And, sadly, in our culture, observing nature and being aware of the other entities is considered a luxury rather than an essential way of life and a form of respect for Creation and the Creator.” – From “Wisdom,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father, all rights resvd

“When today’s children grow up, will they blame their parents for having polluted the air to an extent that it is frequently unhealthful to go outdoors? No, their children will not blame them, because they… [learned that] having days in which it is unsafe for your children to go outside is an acceptable price to pay for our lifestyle.”–From“Ownership of Everything,” Look for Our Mother and Our Father,all rights resvd