Cultural Posturing/Quotes

""We tell ourselves, self-servingly, that nationalism breeds monsters and choose to ignore the fact that internationalism breeds them too. Ours is the culpability not of the assassin, but of the bystander who takes a snapshot of the murder. Or, when the revolution catches fire, hops on the next plane out.""

- Pico Iyer on the posturing of world travellers like himself, Living in the Transit Lounge, 1998

""I think it would be a very good idea.""

- Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi on Western civilization.