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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!"
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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