Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

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Best Quotes about Nations

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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

12.

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

Burton, Pierre

13.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

16.

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.

17.

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

Wilder, Billy

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Chou En Lai

25.

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

26.

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

Hope, Bob

27.

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

28.

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

Sellar, W. C.

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

33.

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

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Bunche, Ralph

36.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

37.

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

Weil, Simone

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Capone, Al

40.

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.

41.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Custine, Marquis De

46.

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

47.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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