Nations Quotes

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This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long -… — David Rockefeller
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because… — Danny Glover
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is… — Dixie Lee Ray
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth... — Al Gore
And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor… — Barack Obama
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself. — Kofi Annan
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is… — Frederick Seitz
We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent… — Paula Dobriansky
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such… — Leo Tolstoy
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so… — Pope Paul VI
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and… — Pope John XXIII
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's… — Isidore of Seville

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