England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on England's geographical isolation and how it shapes its identity and boundaries.
Salman Rushdie's quote highlights the unique geographical situation of England as an island nation, suggesting that this isolation has a profound impact on its culture, identity, and the way it interacts with the rest of the world. The sea serves as a natural frontier that offers both protection and definition, shaping the nation's historical and cultural narrative. This idea hints at how physical boundaries can influence a society's development and worldview.
In practice
In a geography class discussing the importance of natural borders.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.
Even a soul submerged in sleep _x000D_ is hard at work and helps _x000D_ make something of the world.
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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