It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You’re all Muslim, so now you’re a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: ‘Oh no, we’re not.’
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
I’ve been to Canada, and I’ve always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.
It’s a wonder our country doesn’t implode.
Gay people can’t be proud of the country and want to defend it too. What’s the army afraid is going to happen if gay people are in it. Private, shoot that man! I can’t, he’s adorable.
I don’t trust any country that looks around a continent and says, “Hey, I’ll take the frozen part.”
Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it.
Afraid is a country with no exit visas...
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.
It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.
On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.