Motivational Quotes

Nations

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Nations

Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.

Swayze, John

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Kennedy, John F.

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Goldman, Emma

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Huxley, Aldous

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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Warner, Charles Dudley

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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Bolt, Robert

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Truman, Harry S

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

Churchill, Winston

17.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

18.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Burton, Pierre

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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

Herzen, Alexander

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

29.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

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Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

32.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

33.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Twain, Mark

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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Custine, Marquis De

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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Twain, Mark

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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Burke, Edmund

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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

Potter, Henry Codman

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Kubrick, Stanley

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China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

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The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]

Marx, Karl