#nation

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#bombs #camps #chambers #corpses #countries

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#consists #does #mainly #making #nation

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#destination #goals #life #richelle #richelle-goodrich

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. ↗

— John Hersey

#defense #fabricate #failure #materials #mine

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#being #denies #existence #four #himself

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#among #aristocratic #historic #i #incline

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#football #forward #i #international #job

Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world…hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#multiculturalism #nonsectarianism #open-mindedness #faith

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#nationalist #other #pride #self-respect #substitute

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#away #beautiful #block #chipping #elimination