Quotes About Peoples

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple not as in an intestinal obstruction

Rome was a marketplace of borrowed gods and conquered peoples

Sans unité, les peuples d'Afrique n'ont pas de futur, sauf comme perpétuelles et faibles victimes de l'impérialisme et de l'exploitation

The development of the peoples means a rebellion

myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no beating folklore." - Breena Malloy from Bitter Frost by Kailin Gow

if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the 'unmixing of peoples' the order of nation-states, what's on the horizon?

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and servants, boys and established peoples but no humans--is this not like a battlefield, where hands and arms and all limbs lie chaotically in pieces, while the spilled blood of life runs into the sand?

What love and spirit give cannot be extorted. The state has always been made a hell by man's wanting to make it his heaven. The state is nothing but the coarse husk around the seed of life, the wall around the human fruits and flowers. Yet what good is a wall when the soil of our garden is parched? ... O inspiration, you will bring us the springtime of peoples again. The state cannot command your presence, but if it does not obstruct you, you will come.

Wenn überhaupt die Geschichte auch im Jünglingsalter der Völker eine edle Lehrerin ist, so hat sie in Zeitaltern, wie das unsrige, noch ein anderes und heiligeres Amt.

Certains accidents géographiques, par exemple les hautes montagnes, s'apparentent, en raison de leur symbolisme naturel, aux grands sanctuaires primordiaux, et c'est pour cela que les peuples les plus divers, surtout ceux dont la tradition a une forme « mythique » ou « primordiale », évitent de monter jusqu'aux sommets des montagnes, par crainte de provoquer la « colère des Dieux ».

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples' dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.

We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on.

Mirek rewrote history just like the Communist Party, like all political parties, like all peoples, like mankind. They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past . ( P. 30 )

The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have been able to save their peoples and some of their countrysides by destroying the rest of the world and reducing it's people to abject poverty.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.

For the Germanic peoples, unity or disunity was the crucial variable in military strength; while for the Romans, as we have seen, it was the abundance or shortage of cash.