Nations Quotes - Page 24

• The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Dream, Groups, Woven

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• Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  Mitch McConnell

  Motivation, Law, Nsa

  "Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Government, Nsa

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Food, People, Judging

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• The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

  George Brandis

  Country, Art, Eye

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

  George Brandis

  Needs, Stories, Sophisticated

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

  George Brandis

  Tradition, Great Work, Universal

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

  George Brandis

  Art, Vision, Ambitious

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the main, great Western nations. Australia is the twelfth largest economy in the world. We are a not insignificant player in commerce, in geopolitics and we must be in culture as well and we are.

  George Brandis

  Player, Australia, Culture

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.

  Antonis Samaras

  Years, Ideas, Six

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

  Douglas Wilder

  Usa, Slavery, Involvement

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

  Elinor Glyn

  Travel, Unattractive, Creatures

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.249, eBookIt.com

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• Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

  Marie Corelli

  Strong, Hate, Men

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.496, The Floating Press

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• the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, Memories, Wine

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• Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Travel, Rain, Vacation

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• Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

  Alice Meynell

  Journey, Men, World

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• Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Volunteer, Soul

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• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  William E. Gladstone

  Wealth, Commerce, Equalizer

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Shopping, United States, British

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• A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

  Charles Sumner

  Mean, Meanness

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.5771, Library of Alexandria

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• In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Rights, Government

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• I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Greatness, America

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• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Destiny, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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