I had thrived in Miss Popham’s class because she was in charge of her own curriculum. She had a wonderful idea and freedom to teach as she wished. I still think hers is the best way to organize a literature class in high school if the goal is to en...
Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in...
You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wi...
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our colle...
Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and fre...
Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn’t going to be room to bury anyone anymore? For my ninth birthday last year, Grandma gave me a subscription to Natio...
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.
of their passions in the same object at that particular time.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
