"The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Bassam Tibi

#Weapons Quotes #Accusation Quotes #Insensitivity Quotes

“The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene”

Source : Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins
“We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.”
“Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.”
“When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.”
“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well...”
“All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.”
“A problem solved is a problem caused.”
“The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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