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US writer and professor 1965Related quotes

“No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.”
On polls showing that many Americans would support a restriction of free speech especially if against speech held to be unpatriotic, in a speech to the Society of Professional Journalists (11 September 2004)

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Kenneth Boulding (1958, p. 95) as cited in: Edward Stamp, Michael J. Mumford, Ken V. Peasnell (1993) Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting. p. 147
1950s

Source: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005), p. 86
Source: War Talk

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

“So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 6, “The Price of Remembering” (p. 49)

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 174
Context: Humans need stories — grand compelling stories — that help to orient us in our lives in the cosmos. The Epic of Evolution is such a story, beautifully suited to anchor our search for planetary consensus, telling us of our nature, our place, our context. Moreover, responses to this story — what we are calling religious naturalism — can yield deep and abiding spiritual experiences. And then, after that, we need other stories as well, human-centered stories, a mythos that embodies our ideals and our passions. This mythos comes to us, often in experiences called revelation, from the sages and the artists of past and present times.