“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change”
- Reinhold Niebuhr , maybe
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" I may have virtual omnipotence in the government of my own body and my physical environment, but how am I to control myself so as to avoid folly and error in its use?"
-Alan Watts
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"The same Structural Adjustment Policies call for improved governance and democracy, but how democratic can a country be if it must block fair wages for its people in the World Trade Organization (and would any people democratically choose to be exploited?) so that it can continue to attract sweatshops in order to pay back international debt? "

"I couldn't help but wonder, however, how much the superiority from working indoors is a cultural graft from the West, and how many traditional and indigenous practices have simply evaporated in the face of industrial hegemony. "
- Sanaz, critical of a pro-sweatshop attitude