Foreigners Quote by Olaf Stapledon Download Open image “A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.” — Olaf Stapledon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreigners Hate Nations
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors — Karl Deutsch Copy Share Image
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.” — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and… — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk,… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image