“Racism is an avoidable culture clash masquerading as inescapable biological warfare.”

“Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.”

“Our problem is not a predetermined clash of irreconcilable genomes. Racism is generated and empowered by a flawed worldview that can be corrected with scientific and historical knowledge.”

“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”

“Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.”

“Racism is not the norm in mainstream Western culture or in its institutions: not even close to the norm.”

“Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.”

“Cultural relativism dictates that all cultures are equally moral and valuable—though in practice, Western culture is often presented as inferior to all others, stained as it supposedly is by racism and imperialism.”

“No army in the history of warfare has done more to avoid harming civilians in a combat zone than the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.”

“Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.”