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“Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.14

“All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108

“Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.128

“Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.138

“Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Knowledge and Global Order https://www.academia.edu/4418949/Knowledge_and_Global_Order_-_BBVA_OpenMind_August_2013/ - BBVA OpenMind, August 2013

“It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

The Pivot Expanded http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-pivot-expanded - Small Wars Journal, October 2013

“Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Pillars of Globalization, p. 13 (2006)

“We are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.65

“People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: The Role of Education in Global Security (2007), p.106

“There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.109

“Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p. 186

“Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.29

“There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), pp.85-86

“In order to stop the cycle of disenfranchisement, frustration, and discontent, dignity must be central, paving the way for a governance model that is affordable, acceptable, and applicable to various regional and cultural sensibilities.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Arab Spring Transitions Need Home Grown Solutions http://www.theglobalobservatory.org/opinion/554-arab-spring-transitions-need-home-grown-solutions.html - The Global Observatory, 2013

“The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Dignity Deficit Fuels Uprisings in the Middle East http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/dignity-deficit-fuels-uprisings-middle-east - YaleGlobal, September 2013

“One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral concepts that are indigenous to specific cultural settings. {{fix cite}”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)

“Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.97

“Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.181