Nations Quotes
The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.
Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.