"Actual flesh and blood human beings differ enormously,
not just from individual to individual,
but from group to group and from one culture to another.
Various tests of honesty reveal very striking differences.
Honesty is more than a moral issue."
"A five year study: United Nations diplomats who paid their parking tickets in New York where diplomatic immunity shielded them from prosecution.
- Egypt with 20 UN diplomats had 1,000 unpaid tickets in 5 years
- Canada with 24 UN diplomats had no unpaid tickets in 5 years
- Britain with 31 UN diplomats had no unpaid tickets in 5 years
- Japan with 47 diplomats had no unpaid tickets in 5 years"
"Most corrupt countries also the poorest, even with rich natural resources."
"A thousand years ago the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo took turns to race ahead of the western world. Islam and innovation were twins. The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers, beacons of learning, tolerance and trade. Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state.
Anyone who doubts the cultural and technological level achieved by the Islamic world a thousand years ago need only visit the great mosque in Cordoba, built when the Moors were the ruling conquerors of Spain. As for tolerance, when in 1492 Christian Spain finally freed itself and drove out the last of the Moors, it also expelled Jews en masse - more of whom fled to the Islamic world than to Christian Europe, which was at the time less tolerant than Islamic North Africa and the Ottoman empire. That world was obviously quite different from the world of today. Part of the difference reflects a difference in receptivity to other cultures."
"Latin America has 8% of the people in the world and they commit 38% of the murders and 80% of the murders occur on 2% of the streets."
"Fredrick Douglas had achieved a deeper understanding in the 19th century than any of the black 'leaders' of today. Those whites who feel a need to do something with blacks and for blacks have been some of the most dangerous 'friends' of blacks."
"As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."
~ The above quotes and information come from Thomas Sowell
"Latin America has 8% of the people in the world and they commit 38% of the murders and 80% of the murders occur on 2% of the streets."
"Fredrick Douglas had achieved a deeper understanding in the 19th century than any of the black 'leaders' of today. Those whites who feel a need to do something with blacks and for blacks have been some of the most dangerous 'friends' of blacks."
"As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."
~ The above quotes and information come from Thomas Sowell
