Insularity Quotes

• Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

  David Eller

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Las sociedades occidentales, desde la antigua Atenas hasta la Roma imperial y la república francesa, rara vez se derrumbaron por escasez de recursos o porque los enemigos extranjeros resultaran demasiado numerosos o formidables en armas, incluso cuando esos enemigos eran macedonios o germanos sombríos. Más bien, en tiempos de paz y prosperidad surgió una visión irreal del mundo más allá de sus fronteras, producto de la insularidad provocada por el éxito, y una arrogancia intelectual que para algunos puede ser el desafortunado subproducto de una sociedad ilustrada.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Puntos de vista, Roma, Arrogancia intelectual

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• ¿Qué tiene de malo "la nueva élite"? Olvídate de la insularidad cultural o la petulancia. El principal problema de la "nueva élite" es que no es una élite en absoluto. Es decir, no son especialmente inteligentes ni competentes.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Smart, Political, Smugness

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• There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

  Laila Lalami

  Book, Adults, Fiction

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

  Tom Stoppard

  Passion, Way, Lovers

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hurt, Self

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• For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

  Annie Dillard

  Cities, Pittsburgh, Towns

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.69, Canongate Books

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• The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Strong, Attitude, Fall

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