Nations Quotes
2130 Nations quotes by 1213 unique authors
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,…
— Edward Everett
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.…
— Meg Wolitzer
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Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.
— Eusebius
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You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.
— John Robbins
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
— Dennis Kucinich
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We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
— C.S. Lewis
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The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
— Gioachino Rossini
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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic…
— Azar Nafisi
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Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to…
— Nhat Hanh
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On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront…
— Barack Obama
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We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace…
— Kofi Annan
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This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have…
— William J. Clinton
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We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles…
— Al Gore
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Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict…
— Joe Lieberman
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by…
— Denis Diderot
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
— Baron d'Holbach
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve…
— Jim Clyburn
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Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
— Adam Schiff
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to…
— Christopher Dawson
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The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most…
— Pope Leo XIII
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The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been…
— Pope Leo XIII
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic…
— Ellen DuBois
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