La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique. - Claude Lévi-Strauss

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

Kültürlerin çeşitliliği insan topluluklarının birbirinden yalıtılmasından çok, onları birleştiren ilişkilere bağlıdır.

So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.