Foreigners Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image “[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreigners Killing Patriotic
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett 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