#nation

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#armies #demented #fight #first #generally

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#decided #dragon #i #i always #imagination

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ↗

— Dan Gable

#alloy #called #determination #gold #gold medals

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#class #ever #haggard #joe #merle

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. ↗

— Juan Cole

#also #arab #argued #before #easy

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. ↗

— Juan Cole

#american #american administration #arrogant #been #believe

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#important #nation #need #people #safe

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion