Thorsten J. Pattberg Quotes

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful China-experts whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the cradle of Western civilization remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg