National Instant Criminal

Famous quotes containing the words national, instant and/or criminal:

    “Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

    “No, I have never found
    The place where I could say
    This is my proper ground,
    Here I shall stay;
    Nor met that special one
    Who has an instant claim
    On everything I own
    Down to my name....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The attorneys defending a criminal are rarely artists enough to turn the beautiful ghastliness of his deed to his advantage.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)