All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -… — Arundhati Roy 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
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if… — John Donne Copy Share Image
On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber.… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty...… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers -… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100… — Jackie Robinson 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
Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
To maintain our economic and national security, we must maximize all of our nation's energy resources, including renewable sources, alternative fuels, and… — Joe Heck Copy Share Image
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image