“ A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens. Abhijit Naskar
“ As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price. John Lewis Gaddis
“ Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it. Zygmunt Bauman
“ That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our h… Michael Pollan
“ The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and… Noam Chomsky
“ The appeal by twentieth-century pluralists to scientific method was also ideologically—and even messianically—driven. It ignored scientific data that interfered with environmentalist assumptions and mis… Paul Edward Gottfried
“ Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature. Maya Emmett
“ Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very s… Dalma Heyn
