Country Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image “Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Entertainment Feels Patriotism Political Turmoil
Entertainment can only go so far if a regime is unable to provide the basic foundations of legitimacy, which almost always includes the necessities… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests? — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with their lives, as if everything hinges on one decision. But whichever direction you go there are going to be upsides and downsides. You're dealing with a set of trade-offs, and not one course in comparison to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver 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
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