Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  • -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 阿卜杜尔·卡拉姆

作为一个国家,我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?

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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

人们会迷恋浪漫,迷恋政治偏执,迷恋恐怖。我不认为是主题的错误造成了这种痴迷。

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

纵观历史,最先倒下的是那些给予将军们最多,而给予人民最少的国家

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

我认为欧盟不太可能因为一些国家脱离边缘而分裂。

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

一个民族与其说是思想和理论的集合体,不如说是一种执着。