Maher

“People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“There are always people telling us what we want, how they will provide it, and what we should believe. Convictions are infectious, and people can make others convinced of almost anything.”
― Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ‘‘Did the professor respect you?”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah

“I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers