"The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation."

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Janne Teller

#Europe Quotes #Tradition Quotes #Construction Quotes

“Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?”

Source : "Fictional character: Roy Dillon". "The Grifters", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House
“Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.”
“I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.”
“Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow”
“The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration â€”an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.”
“Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.”
“There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.”

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