Jimmy Carter Quotes

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

Jimmy Carter

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• I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Moral
  • More
  • Neighbors

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Lost
  • Memory

• In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fence

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Tradition

• The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.

  

  Denzil Douglas
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Life
  • Die
  • Neighbors

• I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • School
  • I Remember
  • Neighbors

• So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Neighbors
  • Barbarism
  • Transactions

• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

  

  Confucius
  • Speech
  • Neighbors
  • Barbarians

• Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Neighbors
  • Solitary

• They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Neighbors
  • Visiting
  • Roosters

• The most popular (aspect) is getting to know your neighbors and reaping benefits from that.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Benefits
  • Neighbors
  • Reaping

• It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Blame
  • Overcome
  • Difficulties

• I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Borders
  • Declare

• No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Help
  • Trouble
  • Neighbors

• This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Amazing
  • Come
  • Borders

• What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Global Community
  • Interdependent world
  • September, 2001

• When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the sublimity of a revolution then things are very different and the Kantian ethic is shown to be limited in its value.

  

  Alison Assiter
  • God
  • Individual
  • Relation

• There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Interesting
  • Moments
  • Beneficial

• Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Borders
  • Neighbors
  • Global Community