Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Prozac Nation

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Prozac Nation

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

Prozac Nation

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Prozac Nation

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

Prozac Nation

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Prozac Nation

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Prozac Nation

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

Prozac Nation

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

Is a wind farm a field full of talking politicians? If so, I wonder what they grow? Probably the national debt.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

Under the Volcano

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.

Voice of Reason

There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced.

Voice of Reason

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Voice of Reason

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

What Scotland Taught Me

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

The Wealth of Nations

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

War and Peace

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

Joe Barton