We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these othersโour parents, for instanceโand they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.
Charles TaylorWhat should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.
Charles TaylorWe become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
Charles TaylorLittle countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact
Charles Taylor