Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alon… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à ce qui est. C'est une attitude dynamique, qui consiste à prévoir, à comprendre et à promouvoir ce qui veut être.

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.