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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively…
— Mortimer Adler
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them.…
— Jo Brand
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This…
— Theodore Beale
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such…
— Dalai Lama
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the…
— Ayn Rand
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and…
— Richard J. Foster
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by…
— Dian Fossey
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with…
— Karl Rahner
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes…
— Roger N. Walsh
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
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