Nations Quotes

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.