William Ralph Inge Quote

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.


The End of an Age: and other essays (1948), p. 127


A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.