Benedict Anderson quotes

Benedict Anderson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.”
-- Benedict Anderson

Source : Benedict Anderson (2006). “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism”, p.7, Verso

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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”
“Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.”

Source : "French minister touts superiority". www.taipeitimes.com. February 6, 2012.
“Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.”
“I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.”
“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.”
“Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.”

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