Absurd Quote by Thomas Paine

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in…

— Thomas Paine

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

— Lee Hsien Loong

“Their very independence from Great Britain resulted, as Thomas Paine had predicted it would in 1776, from the implausibility that “a Continent [could] be…

— John Lewis Gaddis

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

Britain is not an island... well, yes it is, but...

— Anonymous

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

— Paul Theroux

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories,…

— Vladimir Putin

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the…

— Edna Ferber

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

— H.G. Wells

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there,…

— will.i.am