Country Quote by Kurt Tucholsky Download Open image “A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,” — Kurt Tucholsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Doe Inspirational Patriotism Tolerate
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's not what the country can do for you but what you can do for your country. — John Curtin Copy Share Image
You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation;… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
“That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.” — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share