Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities Quotes

#1. The fact of the matter is that nationalism thinks in terms of historical destinies, while racism dreams of eternal contaminations, transmitted from the origins of time through an endless sequence of loathsome copulations: outside history.
-Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

Nancy Ordover

#2. Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Ronald Reagan

#3. getting angry or giving in when a woman tests you results in automatic failure.

Bruce Bryans

#4. Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

Rajneesh

#5. You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

#6. What's that?"
"It's a book."
"What's that, then?"
"A non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare, you should have one.

Steve Roberts

#7. I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

Douglas Booth

#8. But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

James MacArthur

#9. [ ... ]Frisbee people won't let it go. My theory is that this is because there's a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America.

Mindy Kaling

#10. The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

#11. One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

Reggie Jackson

#13. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. The

Adam M. Grant

#14. A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Benjamin Disraeli