People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim SoroushIf a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
Abdolkarim SoroushAs a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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