Motivational Quotes

Nations

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Nations

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Acheson, Dean

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Bunche, Ralph

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Sellar, W. C.

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Carter, Jimmy

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Weil, Simone

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Capone, Al

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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

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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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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Ruskin, John

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

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

Hope, Bob

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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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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Ruskin, John

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

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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Vico, Giambattista

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

39.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Gaulle, Charles De

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Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.

Edinborough, Arnold

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Hochhuth, Rolf

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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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Hugo, Victor