Countries Quotes
2101 quotes by 1451 authors
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The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and…
— David Miliband
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Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on…
— Albert Einstein
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Climate experts say we should tell villagers in developing countries to reduce the amount of cooking smoke they generate to help fix global warming. You…
— Jay Leno
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We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything…
— Jose Mujica
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
— Mark Twain
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So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are…
— David Suzuki
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Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.
— Goodluck Jonathan
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The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American…
— Benedict Groeschel
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Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
— Thomas Paine
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the…
— Grant Morrison
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a…
— Albert Einstein
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The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate…
— John Ricard
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It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to…
— Homer Bone
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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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