country - quotes

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Aldous (Leonard) Huxley, 1894-1963

was an English critic and novelist

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

George Santayana, 1863-1952

was an US (Spanish-born) philosopher

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton, 1874-1936

was an English author and mystery novelist

“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”