I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Both wisdom, and generosity derive from God. And when one submits themselves completely to Him, one soon becomes like Him: wise and generous.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

The world will never discover a person who is hiding in the crowd.

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.

Love knows nothing of order.