Norman Davies quotes

  • [The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.
    -- Norman Davies

    #Country #Dies

  • Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.
    -- Norman Davies

    #Temperament

  • The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.
    -- Norman Davies

    #Believe #Views #Mind

  • The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.
    -- Norman Davies

    #Ukraine #Important #Purpose

  • Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  • Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  • I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

  • Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

  • When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

  • You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  • Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  • Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.

  • Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

  • Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.