“When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.”— Emma Goldman, edchange.org
“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“People are all just people, right? When it gets down to it, everyone’s the same. They love something. They want something. They fear something. Specifics help, but specifics don’t change the way that everyone is vulnerable. It just changes the way that we access those vulnerabilities.”— David Iserson, Mobley, Azhar Khan, imdb.com
“We don't have a common market in the Americas. But in all sorts of ways, the United States constrains itself in order to bind everyone under a common set of norms and rules that makes everybody more prosperous.”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“The more the EU does, the less room there is for national decision-making. Sometimes these EU rules sound simply ludicrous, like the rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons, or the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners. Sometimes they can be truly…”— Boris Johnson, telegraph.co.uk
“The aggressiveness of totalitarianism springs only for ideological reasons: to make the world consistent, to prove that its respective supersense has been right.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com