“ Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. Aberjhani
“ Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. Salman Rushdie
“ If relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we. would each have to end up by saying, From where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right. A… Kwame Anthony Appiah
“ Say I decide that it would be a good thing to insert pictures here demonstrating cultural relativism, displaying an act that is commonsensical in one culture but deeply distressing in another. I know,… Robert M. Sapolsky
“ The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see… Claude Levi-Strauss
“ Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes. John Rachel
“ Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs. John Rachel
“ Here is something I have learned the hard way, but which a lot of well-meaning people in the West have a hard time accepting: All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. A cult… Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“ But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I ask this, in spite of my implicit allegiance to one; yet, it is a worthwhile question. I mea… Ashim Shanker
“ If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of… Herodotus
