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.

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.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

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.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.