Hellenic Forums Omogenia - YASOU - Hellenism: Great Quotations & Literature II

"...our marked indifference to forms of existence other than our own, our habitual and pervasive intolerance of what is alien, in short, our characteristic inability through an act of the imagination to get outside of our own skins, to put ourselves in the place of others, to understand that the only hope of escaping from the prison of self-regarding egotism, without falling directly into the tranquilizing embrace of mobocracy, is by learning how to imagine, acknowledge, and value what is distinctly individual and other."

Giles Gunn, 1979, The Interpretation of Otherness : Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination, New York: Oxford University Press, p.176

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