Nations Quotes - Page 18

• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.

  Sun Tzu

  War

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• The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Church, Ascension

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• Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, People, Intellectual

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  Albert Einstein

  War, People, Common Sense

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.66, Book Tree

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• No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.

  John Marshall

  Law, Russia, Rights

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• The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.

  T. D. Allman

  Powerful, Long, Important

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• A nation without borders is no nation at all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Borders

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• There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Spiritual, Differences

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• Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

  Ayn Rand

  Phrases, World, Currents

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1966). “The Objectivist”

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• Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Ministry, Revolution

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• Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

  Madeleine Albright

  Needs, World, Today

  "Albright Sees an Ambitious World Mission for U.S". Harvard University commencement speech, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1997.

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• America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

  Neil Postman

  Communication, Taken, Two

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.41, Penguin

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• The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

  Michael Parenti

  Father, Hymns, Holy Days

  Michael Parenti (1970). “The Anti-communist Impulse”

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• The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Struggle, Past, Orange

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  Yvette Clarke

  Greatness, Achievement, Black History

  "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

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• The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.

  Woody Harrelson

  Country, War, Grief

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• What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

  Dennis Miller

  Fighting, Culture, World

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• When the brave men and women who serve our nation in uniform leave to deploy overseas, they dont just leave behind their family and friends, often times they leave behind jobs and livelihoods as well. After the sacrifices they have made, making sure that they have access to a good paying job to support their families when they return is the least we can do.

  Tim Walz

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Men

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• American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

  Gerald Celente

  War, People, Fake

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• Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Engineering, Connections

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• I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

  Andrew Forrest

  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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• Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Communication, Ideas, Mind

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