Saundra

“This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity

“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity

“necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.”
― M. Scott Peck, The People Of The Lie: Hope for Healing Human Evil