"In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture."

-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Order Quotes #Culture Quotes

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.”

Source : "Slavoj Zizek: I am not the world’s hippest philosopher!". Interview with Katie Engelhart, www.salon.com. December 29, 2012.
“Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.”
“In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or Development) might be observable in the fossil record, it was merely evidence of God's purpose. God, for example, would cause horses and oxen to evolve in time to meet human needs. The brightly colored plumage of birds, Campbell went on, were simply God's decorations of nature for humanity's enjoyment.”
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
“I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.”
“The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.”
“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”

Source : John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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