The Exchange Between Different Cultures Can Not

I Guess Some Of The Most Delightful Moments Of My Teenage Years Were When I Was Trying Not Just To Educate Myself But Trying To Educate Others. And I Could See How The Lives Of Children Could Be Transformed In That.

Human Life Consists Of Doing Certain Things ... To Take Part In The Life Of The Community; To Be Able To Talk About Subjects That Interest Me And There Freedom Of Speech Comes Into It.

A Defeated Argument That Refuses To Be Obliterated Can Remain Very Alive.

But Once We Recognize That Many Ideas That Are Taken To Be Quintessentially Western Have Also Flourished In Other Civilizations, We Also See That These Ideas Are Not As Culture-specific As Is Sometimes Claimed. We Need Not Begin With Pessimism, At Least On This Ground, About The Prospects Of Reasoned Humanism In The World.

No Famine Has Ever Taken Place In The History Of The World In A Functioning Democracy.