“I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.” PeopleIfsStatesMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesThousandBasesTownsIntuitionExperimentsMediumsSufficientGermanyCampsNaziPersonnelNazi GermanyDeath Camps Author:Stanley Milgram
“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.” KnowsGivingLittlesDreamAmericaNamesMy OwnPiecesLandGive MeTownsPopcornLittle Towns Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
“I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.” NextLanguageMy OwnNumbersStrangeTravelTownsTablesSurpriseCuriosityCome UpMelodyImpatienceAnticipateGamingNew Places Book:A Fine of 200 Francs Source: A Fine of 200 Francs
“I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.” FirstsCharacterStoriesMy OwnFictionWatchesTownsCollectionsShort StorySmall TownFellowshipFidelitySockBerriesIllinois Author:Nick Offerman
“It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.” CountryAmericaMy OwnKindnessFitTownsWideYearning Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.” TryingBigsRunningStuffMy OwnWrittenDirectorsHorseTownsProducersGigs Author:Mike White