Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
Interpretation
Economic struggles can lead to frustration and extremism among young people.
This quote by Salman Rushdie highlights the connection between poverty and the feelings of discontent and rage that can emerge within young men in economically challenged regions. The lack of opportunities for a stable and prosperous life can provoke anger and desperation, which may lead them to embrace radical ideologies as a means of expressing their frustrations or seeking change.
In practice
In a discussion about global poverty and its effects on society.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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