Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture — these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.