My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.... — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The American Dream is a romantic notion but it's newer - not as pretty. You go to Europe, and it says something… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
