Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A…

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and…

— Amartya Sen

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other…

— Hannes Alfven

Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that…

— Peter Bradshaw

I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to…

— George Jackson

Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it…

— Pankaj Mishra

I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed…

— Kenny Smith

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is…

— Stanley Kubrick

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans…

— Mario Andretti

“Parochialism remains the Danes’ defining characteristic, but their radically recalibrated sense of identity and national pride has created a curious duality best described as…

— Michael Booth

“... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height,…

— Baroness Orczy

“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is…

— Doris Lessing

I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own…

— Jay L. Garfield

We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those…

— Martin Schulz

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…

— Richard Lewontin