George Hodges Quotes

In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.

George Hodges

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

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Religion
  • China
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• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Taken
  • System
  • Traditions

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

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

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Countries
  • Some

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

  

  Dana Perino
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  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Country
  • Nothing
  • Traditions

• The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sense
  • Conquest
  • Conquerors

• 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

• 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

• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Lost
  • Liberty

• 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

• The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Countries
  • Western
  • Absolutely

• Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Failed

• People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Alive
  • Desert
  • Surprises

• In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.

  

  George Hodges
  • Countries
  • Traditions
  • Conquerors