Countries Quotes
2101 quotes by 1451 authors
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who…
— Vladimir Lenin
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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
— Paul Theroux
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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
— Thomas Friedman
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!
— Michael Badnarik
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What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich…
— Maurice Strong
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the…
— Rachel Maddow
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc,…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
— Gunnar Myrdal
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It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one…
— John C. Calhoun
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first…
— Vanessa Mae
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All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a…
— C. Everett Koop
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There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on…
— Che Guevara
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