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“Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.”
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“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”
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“The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.”
Source : Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso
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“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”
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“Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.”
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“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
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“There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.”
Source : Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.
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“A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.”
Source : Helmut Thielicke (1962). “A Little Exercise for Young Theologians”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
