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Sovereignty based on popular will introduces the dilemma of how to deal with minority groups that are no longer subordinate and can challenge the legitimacy of the majority political identity. This is why the twentieth century, the age of democracy, was also the heyday of ethnic cleansing.
Charles Taylor in "Sacred Killing"
[Unlike traditionalism,] fundamentalism is the flip side of the modernist coin. In its current forms it could not exist without modernism, both adopting modernist technology and rejecting modernist culture. And the fundamentalists appeal is strong in the Muslim world because the threat to Muslim identity has been so great since World War II.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr in "Islam and the World,"
an exclusive interview with Voices Across Boundaries
It became increasingly important for me to have some understanding of how monks like Gen Tagya who clearly knew well the Vinaya precepts by which members of the Buddhist monastic order live their lives had reconciled, at least in their hearts, the challenges posed by the dictates of their ethical teachings on the one hand and the need to protect their fellow Tibetans and their faith against a brutal occupying army on the other.
Thupten Jinpa in "The Buddhist Monks Dilemma"
One should not imagine that the contrast between violence and nonviolence is one between shedding blood in one situation and not shedding blood in the other. Blood, it seems, can get shed in both types of struggle....Any attempt to disturb the status quo will be met with resistance, any attempt to overcome that resistance will lead to struggle and any such prolonged struggle will most likely lead to bloodshed and loss of life. So the great question is not whether blood will be shed or not the question is whose blood is going to be shed.
Arvind Sharma in "Does Hinduism Teach Peace?"
We are safer than we have been in decades, said [Lt.-Col. Dave] Grossman. No planeload of people will ever allow themselves to be used as a weapon again. They are willing to fight. Next time theyll all be hopping up and down on the guys crunchy little body. Grossman is the man to teach them what to do, and how to survive the psychiatric consequences. Because the problem is that most of us dont really like killing people.
Louisa Blair in "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident"
All the great religions, in the fullness of time and understanding, come to develop from within their own resources of spiritual strength, a medicine for their own illness, a religious cure for their own chauvinistic tendencies. History teaches us that all religions have undergone this process to some extent, and that nobody is perfectly good or hopelessly incurable.
Leonard Levin in "Have You Only One Blessing?"
This brings us full circle to whether an exclusively secular humanism can sustain civic cultures with meaningful ethical commitments. The evidence is unpromising, judging not only by the state of public life in the world's most advanced democracies but also by the sheer scale of secular ravages in the past century, from the Nazi Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism to Vietnam, Pol Pot's Cambodia and Rwanda-Burundi.
Amyn Sajoo in "Freedom from Secular Fetters"