Bases Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

“Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical,…

— Neil Postman

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so…

— Charles A. Murray

“the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.”

— James Davison Hunter

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative…

— Franz Boas

“Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.”

— Walter Russell

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

— Antonio Gramsci

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism,…

— Conrad Black

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

— David Brin

“There are schools of thought and political movements that seek to purge human culture of imperialism, leaving behind what they claim is a pure,…

— Yuval Noah Harari