Joshua Zeidner

“In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Christianity universalized but “altered” it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing and universalizing it.”
― Frithjof Schuon

“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
― André Malraux

“The creative writing teacher was horrified at the thought that she was teaching a pack of insipient arsonists—or Lord of the Flies sociopaths. In fact, they were just boys. But, increasingly, in our schools and in our homes, everyday boyishness is seen as aberrational, toxic—a pathology in need of a cure. Boys today bear the burden of several powerful cultural trends: a therapeutic approach to education that valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk, zero-tolerance policies that punish normal antics of young males, and a gender equity movement that views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

“if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor