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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. (Wiesenthal Simon)
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. (Wiesenthal Simon)
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. (Wiesenthal Simon)
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. (Wiesenthal Simon)
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. (Wiesenthal Simon)
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. (Wiesenthal Simon)
All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves. (Wiesenthal Simon)
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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