Nations Quotes - Page 25

• I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

  Miriam Makeba

  Voice, Speaking Up, Black

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• It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  History, Denial, Culture

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• A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

  J. William Fulbright

  Doe, Care, Moral

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• [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

  Jessica Mitford

  Exercise, Simple, Appreciate

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• What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Government, Community

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

  George W. Bush

  Land, Justice, People

  George W. Bush's speech at 53rd Anniversary of National Day of Prayer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2004.

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• For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

  George W. Bush

  Names, Long, Community

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Differences, Government

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Humanity

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Israel, Space, World

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• I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Loss, Thinking, Barbarians

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• the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

  Ellen Key

  Children, Patriotic, Loss

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• Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.

  Ellen Key

  War, Fate, Blood

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• Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.

  Jane Jacobs

  Military, Irrelevance, Government

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Cities and the Wealth of Nations”, p.39, Vintage

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• My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mother, Running, Children

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• The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Development, Spirit, Blind

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

  Harriet Martineau

  Order, Law, America

  Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”

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• The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Fall, Gaps, Wealth

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• It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Men, Investing, Rich

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Rich

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• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  History, Doe, Historian

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• All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, History, Healthy

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• The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

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• Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

  Storm Jameson

  Creating, World, Succeed

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