Apathy Quote by John Steinbeck

“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of…

— Margaret MacMillan

“There have been many great nations with great histories, but the more highly they were developed the more unhappy they were, for they felt…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than these -…

— Tacitus

“What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that…

— Nikola Tesla

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

— Mark Twain

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of…

— Edward Gibbon

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a…

— Harold Lasswell

“A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.”

— Fareed Zakaria

“Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread…

— William Jennings Bryan