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.
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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