Nations Quotes - Page 26

• A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

  Storm Jameson

  Mean, Honor, Fleas

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• I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

  Algernon Sidney

  Believe, Men, Spurs

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  England, Praying, Workshops

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• 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

  War, Leader, Way

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• The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, War, Enemy

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.46, Columbia University Press

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• Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Character, Reality

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  Olive Schreiner

  Way, Curse, Jew

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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• If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Envy, Different, Body

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• 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

  Law, Judging, Bows

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

  Francis Atterbury

  Ministers, Priesthood

  Francis Atterbury (1709). “A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709”, p.8

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• From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

  Francis Atterbury

  Success, Favors, Mere

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• Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Character, Men, Organization

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• The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Government, Risk, Church

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• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• No nation ever rises higher than its women.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Women, Higher, Men Women

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• The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Self, People, Challenges

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Ladders, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Light, Justice, Patriotism

  Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Our World, Government, Needs

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.356, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• old folks is the nation.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Age, Folks, Old Age

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• The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hero, Heart, Past

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.159, Anchor

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• I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

  Margaret Walker

  Hate, Believe, Men

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY

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