A nation is a gezegde

en A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

en We have speakers each month, but the real thing is to get people involved who are interested in looking into their ancestry and helping the historical society preserve records into a usable form. Hopefully we are meeting the needs of these people and the society as well.

en The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en Is this what the pioneers of the civil rights movement fought to achieve, a society where many black people are as trapped and isolated by their poverty as they were by segregation laws? If Sept. 11 showed the power of a nation united in response to a devastating attack, Hurricane Katrina reveals the fault lines of a region and a nation, rent by profound social divisions.

en It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

en But the gift of Providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbours on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

en We have all been moved by the human tragedies that have occurred to our neighbours in the southern United States.

en There is no civil war in Iraq, and Iraqi society is united, ... But because we have a democratic climate... there are dialogues, there are discussions, there are sometimes different ideas, views. But in the end, you see Iraqi society united.

en We are an enlightened and moderate nation. We are against extremism. We have to give a message to the entire world that our society rejects extremism, and we are united against it,

en We're a nation that has gone through incredible suffering and hardship. Yet as a result of it, we're a strong nation and a united nation. And 2002, in my judgment, is going to be a great year,
  Laura Bush

en The theory is that any racial group whose members have at least one drop of 'indigenous' ancestry can create a government with its own set of laws and its own exclusive lands--for example, residents of America who have Mexican ancestry with at least one drop of Mayan or Aztec blood.

en If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.
  Will Rogers

en I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, ... I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ...If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot.

en Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.
  Henri Frederic Amiel

en Often the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities than with promoting common values of nationhood. We should learn lessons from abroad, from the United States, where pride in the nation's values is much more prevalent among minorities than here.


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