113 Quotes About Other

Тролль — это в своем роде зиммелевский Чужак на границе онлайн-сообщества. Если появляются тролли, значит, это кому-то противно, непонятно — почему это он общается не как мы?[...] Тролль — это тот, кто ставит вопрос о границах допустимого, одновременно это и сам раздражитель, и «иммунный ответ» сообщества на раздражитель.

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

Wavelength calibration lamps containing mercury and other elements were in use in astronomy.

Arab-ness is like Negro-ness, which only exists in the white man’s eyes.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

Nationalism plays on my need to label and compare so that I feel superior to other people and promotes an "us verses them" mentality.

Science and religion really don’t have much to do with each other.

The Other should be a glorious, not a pitiful Other, an object of admiration not of commiseration, the object of a challenge, not that interactive, democratic Other which is not even really your equal.The Other exists more intensely in the dual relation, in rivalry and challenge, than in interaction, conviviality and cosy multiculturalism.

There are other dimensions of time for other universes.