Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.
Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
Of all the countries in which I have lived Argentina is certainly the one I loved least – indeed I felt a profound contempt for it.
The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
Generally speaking, they [Americans] are not a people we should be proud to acknowledge as our relations.
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.
China is a travesty of a place, and you should thank God every day that you weren't born there.
Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.
Elections are a Western jerk-off.
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.
I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
