Human Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the…

— Helen McCloy

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the…

— Anonymous

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art…

— Thomas M. Disch

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in…

— Poul Anderson

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

— Frantz Fanon

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

— John Tamihere

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban