As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation-… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions.… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations.… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image