Anglo Saxon Quotes:

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

- Ruth Benedict

source: Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Culture, Intolerance, Anglo Saxon

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Teaching, Rights, Civilization, Bryan, Anglo Saxon

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

topic: Race, Mind, Amusement, Anglo Saxon

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

topic: Powerful, Race, Two, England And America, Anglo Saxon

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Friends, Pride, White, American Society, Anglo Saxon

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

- Josiah Strong

source: Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

topic: Ideas, Two, United States, Exponents, Anglo Saxon

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

- Josiah Strong

source: Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

topic: Mean, Race, Europe, Subsistence, Anglo Saxon

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

- Malcolm Mclaren

topic: Thinking, Order, Ideas, Exotic Places, Anglo Saxon

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

- Terry Eagleton

topic: Important, Prejudice, Revolution, Eggheads, Anglo Saxon

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

- Cecil Rhodes

topic: Dream, Recovery, Race, British Empire, Anglo Saxon

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.359

topic: Character, Law, Names, Common Law, Anglo Saxon

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Beach, Military Leadership, Never Surrender

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Calling, Royal, Philosopher, Anglo Saxon

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

- William W. Johnstone

source: William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone (2014). “A Dangerous Man: A Novel of William "Wild Bill" Longley”, p.210, Pinnacle Books

topic: Knights, Barbarians, Arthur, Anglo Saxon

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

- Salvador de Madariaga

topic: Doe, Sin, Enjoy, Anglo Saxon

What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.173, Vintage

topic: War, Writing, Character, Susceptibility, Sonatas

Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

- John Mortimer

topic: Strong, People, Imagination, Exclamation Marks, Anglo Saxon

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

- Kristin Scott Thomas

topic: Country, Culture, Ageing, Ageism, French Culture

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

- Penelope Lively

source: Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Latin, Museums, Lexicon, Idle Chatter, Chatter

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Class, African American, Curiosity, Anglo Saxon

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

- Herman Melville

topic: Thug, Rome, Years, Sprung, Anglo Saxon

Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes: that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best, the most human, most honorable race the world possesses

- Cecil Rhodes

source: "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

topic: Lying, Mean, Eye, Anglo Saxon

There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law." And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: thehumanist.com

topic: School, Virginia, Law, Anglo Saxon

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

- Scott MacDonald

topic: Party, White, Athletic, Cocktail Parties, Anglo Saxon

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

- Edward Wilmot Blyden

source: Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”

topic: Race, Greek, Century, Anglo Saxon

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Past, Air, Bird, Timelessness, English Music

The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

- Josiah Strong

topic: Race, Long, Climate, Anglo Saxon

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Voice, Leaving, Warning, Anglo Saxon

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

- Olivia Williams

topic: Eye, Artist, Trying, Make Up Artist, Anglo Saxon

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

- Henry James

topic: Illustration, Media, Mind, Anglo Saxon

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

source: Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.177, Harvard University Press

topic: Simplicity, Three, Answers, Anglo Saxon

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.

- Helene Hanff

topic: Writing, Men, Guilt, Chaucer, Middle English

In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.

- Vicente Fox

topic: Years, Organization, Prejudice, Anglo Saxon, National Sovereignty

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

- Cecil Rhodes

source: "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

topic: Country, Race, Giving, Despicable, Anglo Saxon

There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.

- Kabir Bedi

source: Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

topic: Anglo Saxon, World View

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

- Joan Larkin

source: "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

topic: Roots, Sound, Different, Spanish And English, Different Music

The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

- James Lane Allen

source: James Lane Allen (2016). “The reign of law. A tale of the Kentucky hemp fields.”, p.2, Aegitas

topic: Book, Virginia, Remembrance, Strongholds, Anglo Saxon

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

- Helen Suzman

topic: Home, Government, Years, Anglo Saxon

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.

- Paul Mooney

topic: Real, White, Mad, Anglo Saxon

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

- Lydia Davis

topic: Writing, Thinking, Vocabulary, Anglo Saxon

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.230, Library of America

topic: Civilization, Race, Unhappy, Anglo Saxon

The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's how people thought of it - and to be specific, Anglo-Saxon supremacy: The idea that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants were at the top of the world, representing the highest achievement possible for all of humanity, with Darwin's theories being used to prop up this belief.

- George Elliott Clarke

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Ideas, White, People, Anglo Saxon, White Supremacy

The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

- Kabir Bedi

source: Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

topic: Spiritual, Country, Land, Condescending, Charmers

Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: America, Courageous, Projects, Anglo Saxon, Settlers

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.

- Clinton Rossiter

topic: Self Esteem, Men, College, College Campus, Anglo Saxon

In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.

- Martin Heidegger

source: "What Is Called Thinking?". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1952.

topic: Country, Philosophy, Yield, Logistics, Anglo Saxon

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

- Theodor Adorno

source: Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

topic: Country, Pain, Looks, Anglo Saxon

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

- Jerry Pournelle

source: Reply to reader email on "The View from Chaos Manor" - personal blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. February 21, 2001.

topic: Warrior, Cities, People, Vikings, Anglo Saxon

When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.

- Jami Floyd

source: "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

topic: Giving Up, Writing, Hair, Afros, Anglo Saxon

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

topic: Sea, Weather, Long, Ripped, Passing Through