Nations Quote by Stanley Kubrick Download Open image “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.” — Stanley Kubrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nations
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Large countries act like a gangster, and small countries always always behave like prostitutes. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a nation is dependent on the potentials of its citizens. Great nations don’t make great people, only great people make great… — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great. — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and write a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image