Stateless Nation Quotes & Sayings

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all. — W.G. Sebald

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior? — Buchi Emecheta

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation. — Vinod Khosla

Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself. — Brian Tracy

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa. — Jacob Zuma

As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, pretend we have work. We forget our record of atrocities wherever we have been made masters and become comfortable servants again. Our present and our past creep in to change each other and we feel angry and sad and Scottish. Perhaps we feel free. — A. L. Kennedy

Part of success is preparation on purpose. — Jim Rohn

Since the peace treaties
of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and
the stateless have attached themselves
like a curse to all the newly
established states on earth which
were created in the image of the
nation-state. — Hannah Arendt

I see no human beings. My phone never rings. I'm so very old and so very lonely. I hear from no one. — Harold Sala