Kenan Malik Quotes

#1. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

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#2. There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

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#3. What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

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#4. Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

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#5. Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying something profound, the claim is untrue.

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#6. To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world - an ability denied to any other physical being.

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#7. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

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#8. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.

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#9. (optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century).

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#10. As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

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#11. Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

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#12. Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not 'of cult, law and ritual', but of 'feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich'.

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