Action-over-thought Quote by Saul Bellow

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming,…

— Barack Obama

“They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they though civilisation could offer, and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.”

— Vishal Mangalwadi

“We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage.”

— Ian McEwan

“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe that in…

— China Miéville

“In reality, though, the ranks of our enemies, those who would and can inflict serious damage on America, have grown and diversified.”

— Ted Koppel

“What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,”

— Paul Verlaine

“The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes.”

— Bryant McGill