Quotes About Nations

The second unbundling changed technology boundaries. Technology became less defined by national borders and more defined by the contours of international production networks. The resulting gush of know-how from the North to the South has begun to re-equilibrate the knowledge imbalances that had been created during the Great Divergence. The result, as argued in the text, was rapid industrialization and growth take-offs in a handful of developing nations.

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

There is an important clue here about how seemingly similar groups, cities, and even nations can converge on very different beliefs and actions simply because of modest and even arbitrary variations in starting points.

Tecumseh tried to unite the scattered nations under the banner of Crane Power, but the Hopi mark for the crane's foot became the world's peace symbol.

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!

It is not God's power that is lacking to accomplish the redemption of nations

Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations

Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Hermanados por la tradición y por la lengua, tal vez no esté muy lejos el día en que se cumpla el todavía improbable sueño de una unidad de naciones de nuestra América

Y sin duda la violencia seguirá existiendo hasta cuando nuestras naciones alcancen una democracia verosímil y hagan realidad los supuestos mínimos de igualdad que pregonan sus leyes. La

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,His honor and the greatness of his nameShall be, and make new nations.

All warfare has its source in this conflict of wills. Before the satanic will rose up to contradict the divine will, there was no war in the universe. The controversy in the universe began with the rebellion of the archangel against God. That rebellion was the beginning of all the fighting that is now taking place among nations, in society, in the family, and in individuals.

14. A general association of nations must be formed… for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.