Nations Quotes
2130 Nations quotes by 1213 unique authors
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old…
— Clarence Day
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One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
— Shane Claiborne
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
— Albert Einstein
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Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
— Albert Einstein
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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness…
— David O. McKay
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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He…
— John Piper
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Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were born to lead…
— Sheri L. Dew
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they…
— Winston Churchill
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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.
— George W. Bush
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
— John Steinbeck
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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words…
— Walter Mosley
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To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can…
— Thomas Paine
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It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living…
— George W. Bush
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not…
— Dalai Lama
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
— Patrick O'Brian
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...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
— John le Carre
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...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
— Albert Camus
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War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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