Parochialism Quotes

We have worked nearly 30 years, but the lives of the Tibetans have not improved.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

Communists must grasp the principle of subordinating the needs of the part to the needs of the whole. If a proposal appears feasible for a partial situation but not for the situation as a whole, then the part must give way to the whole. Conversely, if the proposal is not feasible for the part but is feasible in the light of the situation as a whole, again the part must give way to the whole.

Heavy Fog In Channel. Continent Cut Off.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Arkansas Comes First.

I met with President [Hugo] Chávez at one point, because he was very concerned that Brightstar had a 70 percent share of the Venezuelan market. He said, “Explain that to me, when you’re an American company.” I said, “No, we’re not an American company. We are a Venezuelan company, with Venezuelan employees, with a Venezuelan leader, owned by an American company, and that is very different.

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for humanity? Who speaks for earth?

Citizen statesmanship recognizes legitimate local or special needs, but it places the national interest first.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

For the vast majority of humans in history, people lived, traveled, worked and died within a few miles of their birthplace.

A built-in hazard of an aggressive ethnocentric movement which disregards the interests of other disadvantaged groups is that it will become parochial and ultimately self-defeating in the face of hostile reactions, dwindling allies, and mounting frustrations.... Only a broad movement for human rights can prevent the Black Revolution from becoming isolated and can insure ultimate success.

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

Unfortunately, the very forces at the local level that are so attractive for their reliance on custom and tradition and that feed our diversity, are so parochial that the effort to achieve equality and social justice must be made on the national level.

I hope we don't export conflict from this planet into the others. None of the paradigms that define us here on earth - the borders, the parochialism, the divide, should mar our presence in space.

When we're told, "You have to find $750 billion to cut", and we say "OK, we can do that; ....the Congress shouldn't turn around and say, "Not in my district" or "Not my weapons system".

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.