Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

The peoples of the earth are one family.