Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

We are not just any nation.

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

Words belong to each other.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

No matter our background, or income, or geography, we are all citizens of America. And no matter our color, or the blood, the color of the blood we bleed, it's the same red blood of great, great patriots.

you can make mean anything.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Text without context is pretext.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

All names mean something.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.