Benedict Anderson Quotes

No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.

Benedict Anderson

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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • House
  • Community

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Belief
  • Universal
  • Lawyers

• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Help
  • Patient
  • Physician

• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Difficult
  • Descent
  • Ascent

• God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Charity
  • Duty
  • Obedience

• My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Done
  • Reason
  • Easy

• One study suggests that the most effective way to increase an Achievement may be to try simply and directly to alter the nature of an individual’s fantasies

  

  David McClelland
  • Nature
  • Increase
  • Alter

• Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mystery

• So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

  

  Norm Dicks
  • Visit
  • Park
  • Ranger

• I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Storytelling
  • Drama School
  • William Shakespeare

• I want to try everything.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Try

• It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the support of the fans. As soon as I joined the band Judas Priest, I got it straight away. Especially in my situation, since I've only been here five minutes. I was a fan.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • Support
  • Fans
  • To Be

• Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Love Is
  • Rescue
  • Emblems

• I think it`s a message of economic nationalism. It`s obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it`s never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

  

  Ben Domenech
  • Phenomenon
  • Pockets
  • Nationalism

• About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Nationalism
  • Emblems
  • Unknown Soldier