“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.” WorldMayProblemSeemsTurnsRoomsViewsStudySeriousCivilizationSolutionsUniversalInstitutionsFinalsContemptAdoptionWorld ProblemsMyopia Author:George F. Kennan
“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.” IfsIndividualRoomsPiecesBrokenThousandAuthorityInstitutionsFaultsAnything Goes Book:Waiting for the Barbarians Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.” TwoNightNationsSidesPresidentRoomsSeriousMessagesStandingInstitutionsCongressDividedLaw EnforcementClappingUnbecoming Author:Mark Udall
“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?” ThinkingMenShouldChildrenSchoolLastsYoungBornRoomsEducationMoralVirtueWiseGenerationsMankindMoralityCostShould HaveInnovationInstitutionsSeekingDareTreatedCandidatesManifestHeroicAcademicScopeCountingRutsCounting The Cost Book:The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.” PeopleThinkingWantReasonRoomsArmsInstitutionsHistoricalObsessedElephantsAccuracyElephant In The Room Author:Nicholas Meyer