Theresa May Quotes

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
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  • War

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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  • Country
  • Black

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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  • Book

• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  

  Harriet Martineau
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  • True
  • Course

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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  • War

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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  • Country
  • Dream

• Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Society
  • Wellbeing

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
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  • Country
  • Career

• Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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  • Society
  • Become

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
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  • Intelligence
  • Head

• I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

  

  Laura Moser
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• I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • Country
  • Think

• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Country
  • Model
  • Equality

• The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

  

  Jacob Zuma
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  • Feeling

• Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
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  • Work
  • Country

• A lot has changed in India in the last decade. We can attribute the growth of India's startup ecosystem to the increased penetration of affordable smartphones and data connectivity across the country. Technology is no longer a luxury. People across generation and geographies are making use of mobile technologies. Startups have capitalised on this phenomenon.

  

  Bhavin Turakhia
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  • Country
  • Technology

• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  

  Kate Smith
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  • Hair
  • Singing

• No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Exercise

• I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

  

  Theresa May
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