Countries Quotes
2101 quotes by 1405 authors
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Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
— Slobodan Milosević
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Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby…
— George R. R. Martin
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Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,
— Mia Couto
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It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the…
— Vladimir Putin
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and…
— John Ortberg
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All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and…
— Sonu Nigam
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To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a…
— Robert Griffin III
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of…
— David Suzuki
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Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about…
— John S. Watson
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The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
— Stephen Walt
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We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully…
— Shigeru Yoshida
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The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian…
— Toshihiko Fukui
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The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a…
— Toshihiko Fukui
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During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
— Toshihiko Fukui
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And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland,…
— Herman Gorter
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The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted…
— Richard Grasso
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I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working…
— Lennart Nilsson
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There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action,…
— Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid…
— J. Philippe Rushton
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