Top 100 No Country Quotes
#1. Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own ... and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
#3. Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.
Pope Gregory XVI
#4. There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#5. No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela
#6. Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
Sam Kean
#7. [ ... ] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.
Mohsin Hamid
#8. No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Edward Dahlberg
#9. I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
Ina May Gaskin
#10. No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
Tony Abbott
#11. Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
John F. Kerry
#12. When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
Charles Krauthammer
#13. No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
Michelle Obama
#15. The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Karl Rove
#16. In today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
Indira Gandhi
#17. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
William S. Burroughs
#18. There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.
Melanne Verveer
#19. Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
Robert E.Lee
#20. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
#21. I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road ... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Amin Maalouf
#23. Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal
#24. A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
#26. No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind
Melanne Verveer
#27. Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
Caleb Landry Jones
#30. No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
Thomas Paine
#31. If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
Tony Blair
#33. AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
Laura Bush
#34. What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.
Robert Dallek
#35. Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.
Jose Rizal
#36. The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.
Tony Blair
#37. It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
Colm Toibin
#38. There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.
Oliver Goldsmith
#39. No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#41. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#42. No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#43. We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.
Henry A. Kissinger
#44. No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
Margaret Mead
#45. The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men' ... 'Little Miss Sunshine' ... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
Beth Grant
#46. Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.
Rush Limbaugh
#47. The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.
Stanley Hauerwas
#48. The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#49. Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown ...
Humphry Davy
#50. Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical - yes, or more obsequious! - than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch
Sinclair Lewis
#51. There is no master without a servant and there is no country without citizens. There can't be leaders without followers or subjects. There is no harvest without sowing.
David Ssembajjo
#52. Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#54. No country that lets its leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it." She
Ben Fountain
#55. No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash
#57. We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .
Peter Drucker
#58. Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston
#60. No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded
Jawaharlal Nehru
#61. William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Johann Most
#63. No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
Ram Shriram
#64. For years now there had been no country here but the war.
Michael Herr
#65. No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
Marc Veasey
#66. No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
Alan Dershowitz
#67. There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
Roy Barnes
#68. No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ...
Gertrude Atherton
#69. He who seeks truth should be of no country.
Voltaire
#70. The most beautiful country in the world, the bloke said a few times, but I knew that lots of people tell themselves things like that but there is no country that is the most beautiful country.
Catherine Lacey
#71. As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
#72. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. He still felt coreless - he was no one, and he was standing here in the middle of no country. The place was counterfeit, a waiting room between connections, a transition from one way of being to another, which for the moment was neither way, no way.
Paul Bowles
#74. There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#75. Everybody in the world is talking about Canada ... outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.
George Raveling
#76. This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#78. Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country
no interests staked in public weal
no liabilities in common peril
no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?
Angelina Grimke
#79. No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
Woodrow Wyatt
#80. Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
John F. Kennedy
#81. The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.
Nigel Lawson
#82. Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
Nouriel Roubini
#84. There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.
Mohammed Mahdi Akef
#87. I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.
Patch Adams
#88. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger
#89. The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads - in the end - to the best within us.
Jesse Owens
#90. No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
Dorothea Lange
#91. A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.
Salman Rushdie
#92. No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
#93. I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth
Agnes Smedley
#94. Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
#96. The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
Samuel Gompers
#97. More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
Kailash Satyarthi
#98. No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.
Hassan Rouhani
#99. Germans tend to forget now that the euro was largely a Franco-German creation. No country has benefited more from the euro than Germany, both politically and economically. Therefore what has happened as a result of the introduction of the euro is largely Germany's its responsibility.
George Soros
#100. The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
Karl Marx
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