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Quotes about nationalities and na
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. (Connery Sean)
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. (Connery Sean)
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. (Connery Sean)
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. (Connery Sean)
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. (Connery Sean)
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. (Connery Sean)
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. (Connery Sean)
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. (Connery Sean)
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. (Connery Sean)
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Connery Sean)
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Connery Sean)
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. (Connery Sean)
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. (Connery Sean)
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. (Connery Sean)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Connery Sean)
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. (Connery Sean)
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. (Connery Sean)
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. (Connery Sean)
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. (Connery Sean)
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. (Connery Sean)
All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. (Connery Sean)
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. (Connery Sean)
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. (Connery Sean)
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. (Connery Sean)
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. (Connery Sean)
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