Quotes
Quotes about Nation
We are only figments of God's imagination.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation cares about its own identity.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
