“Europe’s elites are characterised by cultural self-loathing, combined with a heavy dose of cowardice.”

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British author, politician, and journalist 1961

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

“Self-loathing is a natural and a necessary consequence of those intellectual views of self that are implied in repentance.”

Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) American writer

"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 366
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

“Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?”

Anne Rice book Merrick

Source: Merrick

“People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite, and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.”

C. Wright Mills book The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite (1956), p. 14.

“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I have not the slightest doubt that what passes for Hindu tolerance vis-a-vis Islam is no more than a combination of ignorance and cowardice.”

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

Islam vis-a-vis Hindu temples. (1993)

“Almost every golden age of geo-cultural domains has been characterised by good governance, exchanges, borrowing, innovation and the adaptation of earlier contributions to forms of knowledge, and rationalism.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.171

“What characterises anthropological research today more than anything is the recognition of complexity; the world is complex, cultures are complex, communities are complex, and analytical strategies must acknowledge complexity.”

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962) Norwegian social anthropologist and professor

Source: What is Anthropology? (2nd ed., 2017), Ch. 4 : Theories

“Cultural elites in countries that dominate peoples have adapted subject people’s religion for their own purposes.”

Richard A. Horsley (1939) Biblical scholar

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 12

“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”

Irving Wallace (1916–1990) American writer

“Europe’s elites are characterised by cultural self-loathing, combined with a heavy dose of cowardice.”

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