So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.