Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.