In this second issue of ZRAlt! we give the floor to the “greatest poet of all time”, Albert Einstein, who on his part, continues to enlighten us about the productive relationship between crisis and creativity, perfectly in line with the inspiring philosophy of our magazine:

“Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventiveness is born, as well as discoveries made and big strategies.  He who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome. (…) There’s no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow […]

Images from a Tuareg refugee camp in Burkina Faso

Pino Bertelli

to all the children died in wars, because of the hunger and the rapaciousness of a gang of arrivistes …

“The present social system provides no means of action other than machines for crushing humanity; whatever may be the intentions of those who use them, these machines crush and will continue to crush as long as they exist. With the industrial convict prisons constituted by the big factories, one can only produce slaves and not free workers, still less workers who would form a dominant class.  […]

Peace marching alone like the Buddhist monk Toyoshige Sekiguchi, praying and beating a small drum to bring his campaign for nuclear disarmament and to support Harmony between religions

Toyoshige Sekiguchi and Pina Calì

As we observe the increasing power of catastrophic natural disasters over the recent years, we should not be satisfied with patched preparation for them. We need to be aware that these casualties which we never experienced before are preceding signs of a coming greater disaster, the war. We must stop the war.  […]

The recovery of Beauty to earthquake-stricken L’Aquila

Walter Tortoreto

During a meeting organized by the publishing house One Group and held in the restored Oratorio di San Giuseppe (Oratory of St. Joseph) in L’Aquila, among the other guests, was the Venetian philosopher Massimo Cacciari, an intellectual immersed into the social and political realities also due to his current role of Mayor of his hometown, after Mr. Ugo Bergamo and before Mr. Paolo Costa, and “laureate politician”, as few years ago Bucharest University conferred him a honorary degree in Political Sciences.  […]