Leo Mercer

“A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.”
― Paul Kingsnorth

“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“It took man 250,000 years to transcend the hunting pack. It will not take him so long to transcend the nation.”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.”
― Paul Kingsnorth