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

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.

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.

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.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.