Top 100 Quotes About Nations
#1. The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#2. Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Eduard Shevardnadze
#3. In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God ... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
Adolf Hitler
#4. It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .
Kalakaua
#5. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley
#6. There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.
Howard Zinn
#7. We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.
Menachem Begin
#8. As she continued to read to him, a look of peace relaxed across his features. It was a peace that Betsy knew transcended loyalties to nations and demonstrated they were subjects before one king - the King of Kings.
Elaine Marie Cooper
#9. Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.
Frances Beinecke
#11. If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.
Debasish Mridha
#12. All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.
Colin Powell
#13. Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#14. In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Arthur Henderson
#15. Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
Yasser Arafat
#16. A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard
#17. These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
Henry Ford
#18. It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
Washington Irving
#19. The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
Azim Premji
#20. Who do you think you are?' Asiron asked, with a dry humourless laugh. 'I'll tell you who I am,' answered Parmenion, the words of Tamis echoing in his mind. 'I am Parmenion, the Death of Nations.
David Gemmell
#21. There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.
Marcus Samuelsson
#22. In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.
Strobe Talbott
#23. During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.
Gunnar Myrdal
#24. Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
Pliny The Elder
#25. The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Helen Keller
#26. Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush
#28. An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.
The Economist
#29. Snowden's itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other western nations when they abused human rights. But he was reluctant to speak out against governments that supported his personal efforts to avoid extradition.
Luke Harding
#30. Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#31. Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.
Sadao Araki
#32. The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
Lord Acton
#33. The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!
Robert E.Lee
#34. Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Thomas Paine
#35. Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.
Janez Drnovsek
#36. For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.
The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
Ann Cotton
#38. One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
Ban Ki-moon
#39. The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
Margaret Thatcher
#40. So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
James Chanos
#41. The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.
Mikhail Kalinin
#42. There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.
Milton Friedman
#43. Full employment - very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment - is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially.
Henry Hazlitt
#44. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
Desmond Tutu
#45. The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.
Meir Kahane
#46. And a few months later, an opinion poll found that 54 percent of the American people wanted the United Nations to become a world government with power to control the armed forces of all nations, including the United States.
Eric Schlosser
#47. Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Dorothy Thompson
#48. For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.
Barbara Walters
#49. The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.
Doris Lessing
#50. Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#51. The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!
Babatunde Osotimehin
#52. If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs.
Jan Smuts
#53. The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Christopher Dawson
#54. A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#55. 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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#56. The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head (1:15).
Anonymous
#57. Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. 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.
Ruth Benedict
#59. Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
Winston S. Churchill
#60. Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
C.S. Lewis
#61. An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#62. Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.
Marian Keyes
#63. On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
Christian Lous Lange
#64. For the public, it seemed, preferred to believe that which disturbed it least and to ignore troublesome information. Which is a failing common to all nations.
M.M. Kaye
#65. Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Dana Rohrabacher
#66. Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Ludwig Von Mises
#67. I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
Mohammed Morsi
#68. We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein.
George W. Bush
#69. 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.
Helene D. Gayle
#70. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
John F. Kennedy
#71. In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.
Oliver DeMille
#72. O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Benjamin Disraeli
#73. We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#75. When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.
Norman Hartley
#76. Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity ... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
Isaac Mayer Wise
#78. Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John Ashcroft
#79. Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
Coretta Scott King
#80. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
Karen Blixen
#81. It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome ... was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.
George Q. Cannon
#82. When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.
Bruce R. McConkie
#83. Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.
Eric Alterman
#84. As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#86. Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
Mitt Romney
#87. The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
Noreena Hertz
#88. Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
John Ensign
#89. The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
Ban Ki-moon
#90. War ... strengthened the position of the armament industries ... to a point ... that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations ... war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct.
Doris Lessing
#91. We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
John Boyd Orr
#92. Third world nations are producing too many children too fast ... it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth ...
Al Gore
#93. 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.
Sun Myung Moon
#94. There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
Henry Rollins
#95. America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment ... that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.
Ernest Rutherford
#97. 'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
Maajid Nawaz
#98. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Anonymous
#99. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
#100. Certainly, it could be otherwise. Religion and race could completely recede as decisive factors in the life of a people and of nations in favor of humanity, which alone determines the value and essence of the person.
Agnes Grunwald-Spier
