Nations Quotes - Page 38

• Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

  Tom Dreesen

  Two, People, Evil

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• United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iraq, United States, Coalitions

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  A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

  Bernie Sanders

  Economic Inequality, Littles, Inequality

  "Commentary: Yes, This Campaign Can Get Even More Spectacular". www.chicagotribune.com. January 22, 2016.

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• At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

  Sam Levenson

  Fighting, Government, Censored

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• I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Individual, Knows

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• The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Keys, Government, Decision

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• There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

  M. Stanton Evans

  Long, Population, Income

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• We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

  Phil Gramm

  People, World, Poor

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

  George Will

  Thinking, Two Nations, Media

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• Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Education, Want, Requirements

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• As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

  Natalie Angier

  Buddhist, Atheist, People

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• That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Perspective, Community

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Healing, Acceptance, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Military, Thinking

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Should

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Believe, People

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

  Howard Zinn

  Principles, Obstacles, Anarchist

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.

  Muriel Barbery

  War, Sleep, Flames

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

  W. G. Sebald

  Military, Cities, People

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• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

  David Rockefeller

  Country, Children, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Years, Childhood, Fabulous

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