Pierre Berton quotes

“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”
-- Pierre Berton

Source : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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“Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”
-- Pierre Berton

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“If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.”

“There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.”

Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”

Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

“Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.”

“It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.”

“Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.”

“The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.”

“As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso

“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press