Nations Quotes

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.

I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.