Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Hochhuth, Rolf

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

De Delloy

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Plato

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

10.

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

Sellar, W. C.

11.

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

Bunche, Ralph

12.

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

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Burke, Edmund

15.

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.

16.

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

17.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

18.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

21.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

Dulles, John Foster

25.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

26.

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

Wilder, Billy

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Cuellar, Javier Perez De

30.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

31.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

34.

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

Buechner, Professor William

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Milton, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Wilder, Billy

42.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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.

45.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

46.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

47.

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

48.

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

Custine, Marquis De

49.

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

Swayze, John

50.

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.