Erik Hersman Quotes

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Today
  • Countries
  • Within

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Religion
  • China
  • Countries

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Religion
  • Countries
  • Millionaire

• Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Different
  • Financial
  • Countries

• Clearly, countries expressed the wish to have more. But at least we have something to rely upon for the time being.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Countries

• The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • People
  • Moral
  • Countries

• Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Food
  • Sick

• We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Countries
  • Calling
  • Testing

• The government of Sudan should not have anything against the UN.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Sudan

• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Countries
  • Common Name

• I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Reading
  • Questions
  • Countries

• There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Countries
  • Tried
  • Muslims

• Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Countries

• When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Fear
  • Countries

• We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Revolution
  • Countries
  • Marxists

• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Countries

• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Believed
  • Socialism
  • Countries

• Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • May
  • Success

• I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

  

  Cannonball Adderley
  • Jazz
  • Philosopher
  • Reverting

• I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

  

  Erik Hersman
  • Countries
  • Throughout
  • Sudan