Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values,… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Indeed, a report from the United Nations has revealed that the livestock industry is the number-one contributor to global warming gasses -… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation. — William G. Boykin Copy Share Image
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives,… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the… — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image