Quotes About Country

Existe una gran controversia sobre si los bancos centrales deben ser más independientes o no. Alguna evidencia indica que las tasas de inflación pueden ser menores, pero hay poca evidencia de que mejoran las variables reales como el crecimiento o el paro. No pretendo resolver aquí esta polémica sino subrayar que, dada la controversia, no se debe imponer a un país una visión particular

Reagan se las ingenió para subastar los recursos naturales, una liquidación que posibilitó a las grandes compañías petroleras exportar la enorme abundancia de crudo del país a una fracción de su valor.

And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways, Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed.

All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along to save my country. Now I'm going to fight a little to save myself. The country's not in danger any more, but I am.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian

If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.

In a way the C.I.D. man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. There was no end in sight.

The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .

There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has for something so absurd as a country.

this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.

the Revolution did not produce a single piece of imaginative literature that has endured. The generation of writers who came of age during the Revolution breathed in a supercharged ideological atmosphere; they pressed themselves and their art into the service of their country, only to discover that a republic could be as demanding a patron as a wealthy prince.

Baldwin wrote in Notes of a Native Son that because he loved America "more than any other country in the world," he insisted on the right "to criticize her perpetually."49 Our love for black America demands no less.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldnt be our countrys primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.

a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments;

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice, wilfully saps the foundation of his country's strength.