Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Country

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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, Usa, Two

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, Language, Deserve

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, Sunset, Firefly

Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, War, Believe

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, Thinking, May

Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi