Nations Quotes
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Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.
Ray Winstone -
I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?
Louise Rennison
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The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
Joseph Chamberlain -
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
Vladimir Lenin -
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.
Bill Clinton -
The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
Edwidge Danticat
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Richard Holbrooke -
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
Fidel Castro -
A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
Olaf Stapledon -
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
Oswald Chambers -
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
Mitch Daniels -
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
Ian Goldin
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
Mohsin Hamid -
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
Charles Fourier -
It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
Randal Cremer -
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
Hans Kung -
In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
Leroy Chiao
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
Tom Stoppard -
A nation has character only when it is free.
Bill Vaughan -
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
Gaylord Nelson -
Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.
Burhan Sonmez