Countries Quotes
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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?
— Arthur Miller
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is…
— Primo Levi
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
— Edmund Wilson
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
— Wendell Berry
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Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and…
— Susan Sontag
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
— Don DeLillo
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Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers…
— Richard Rorty
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In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending…
— Azar Nafisi
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To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an…
— Anna Lindh
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We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will…
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim…
— Richard Neal
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Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
— Richard Neal
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