What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so . I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the l...
When I speak about love and compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist, nor as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another. I hope that you at this moment will think of yourself as a human being rather than as an Ame...
[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the hospitable plain Prote...
Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen-year-old fireman...
In Shanghai, there were several pro-right circles of former officers. They realized that the Great War and European revolutions were a direct consequence of rotten liberalism. Words like order, family, discipline and duty didn't mean anything anymore...
Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumous credit for having got the three great questions of the 20th century essentially 'right.' Orwell was an early and consistent foe ...
Spreading rumours is our national past time
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.
We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.
I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
