People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim SoroushWe coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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.
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