Countries Quotes

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

James Woolsey
- Pay
- Countries
- Suppliers
We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.

Peter Hall

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

Nathaniel Smith
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
- Relativism
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow

Bernard Membe
- Pool
- Africa
- Woes
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

Stephen M. Walt
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

Sean Penn
Our two countries work side by side every hour of every day in areas vital to both our interests.

Pierre Pettigrew
- Interests
- Side
- Areas