“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.” FeelsCountryFactsLeftFeltPoorAttentionStrangeDutyKingsIntellectualStandingHorseEnglandInstitutionsWingsBoxesCirclesStealingAshamedRacingNationalityEnglishmenLeft WingGreat CountryPuddingDisgracefulHorse Racing Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.” HardAttentionMeditationWingsFlightHeightWill PowerGreat Heights Author:James Vila Blake
“Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.” PeopleIfsShouldPersonsCountrySeemsWould BeLevelsPayAttentionMoralMillionsHonestCrimeWingsKillingVariousBeing TruePay AttentionCompareRight WingAtrocitiesUltrasTrivialityHonest People Author:Noam Chomsky