George Saunders Quotes About Country

• This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.

  George Saunders

  Country, Issues, Borders

• No me gusta que mis libros viajen por carretera. Se vuelven arrogantes y lo siguiente que hacen es aspirar a convertirse en libros de "gran formato". Yo digo que se queden en casa y sean libros normales de letra pequeña.

  George Saunders

  País, Libro, Casa

  Fuente: www.nationalbook.org

• One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.

  George Saunders

  Spiritual, Country, Long

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• Cuando estás en Estados Unidos, reunido con gente normal, es un país bastante tranquilo, relajado y de buen corazón. La dirección desde arriba, desde el Presidente, sigue tendencias mezquinas: miedo e indebida cautela y desconfianza en el otro, así que es muy deprimente.

  George Saunders

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.

  George Saunders

  Country, Couple, Crazy

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

  George Saunders

  Running, Country, Leader

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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