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Quotes About National

Then there are other media, too, their role is quite different: it's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them to watch national football... or get involved in astrology or fundamentalist stuff, just get them away, get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.
~ Noam Chomsky
El término «Estados Unidos» se usa convencionalmente para referirse no tanto al país, como a sus estructuras de poder; acompaña el término de «interés nacional», que es concretamente el interés de esos grupos de poder y se corresponde poco con las necesidades de la población en general.
~ Noam Chomsky
Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
~ Clive Barker
the national soccer team won the World Cup in 1930 and
~ Colin Jones
We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.
~ Colson Whitehead
One of the radio stations sometimes played the theme to the Andy Griffith Show...The song was a tiny, quiet piece of America carved out of the rest. No fire hoses, no need for the National Guard.
~ Colson Whitehead
As it turned out, one aspect of my personality would help me in my odyssey: I was a bider. Temperamentally suited to hold out for good cards, well accustomed to waiting. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.
~ Colson Whitehead
To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient cultural roots, their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists. That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion.
~ Victor Klemperer
Fact: There's been an eagle on a nickel, An eagle on a quarter, too. But there ain't no eagle On a dime.
~ Langston Hughes
Government research at the National Institutes of Health did not commence in reality until January 1983, eighteen months after the same government had declared the epidemic.
~ Larry Kramer
The U.S. worker] gets to appear at his least national when he is working and at his most national at leisure, with his family or in semipublic worlds of other men producing surplus manliness (e.g. via sports).
~ Lauren Berlant
Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
~ Lauren Graham
The national government belongs to the whole American people,
~ Charles A. Beard
In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,
~ Charles Dickens
their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers,
~ Charles Dickens
In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
~ Charles Dickens
This kingdom is not just a spiritual realm high above the concerns of human history. Nor is it a matter of geography and national boundaries. It is God's gracious rule in the hearts and lives of his people. Jesus and his apostles announce the present reality of the kingdom of God amid daily life. On one occasion Jesus declares, "The kingdom of God is within [or among] you" (Lk 17:21).
~ Charles E. Hummel
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
~ Charles Eastman
legend has it that Mexican food made its national debut at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, better remembered as the Chicago World's Fair.
~ Gustavo Arellano
Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
In woman, personal history blends together with the history of all women, as well as national and world history. As a militant, she is an integral part of all liberations.
~ Helene Cixous
its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups
~ James MacGregor Burns
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me." Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
~ James Patterson