Quotes About Nations

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Blow ye the trumpet, blow The gladly solemn sound: Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come; Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

The philosopher Janna Thompson has argued that obligations to right historical wrongs persist indefinitely, if not eternally. She believes that keeping transgenerational commitments, implicit or not, is the central moral and political good that gives nations the basis for trust.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

For decades, the United States condemned the Chinese Communist Party's coercive population-control policies - too often alone in its criticism, while other nations turned a blind eye as they sought commercial advantages in China.

With South East Asian nations, ASEAN countries, with some of them, we do have defence cooperation, and we continue with them.

I am drawing my inspiration from resource-constrained developed nations like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Dubai in attracting global investments. Compared with them, Andhra Pradesh has more resources to leverage on.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

There's a number of journalists and politicians who are interested in the rise of the National Front and the huge nationalist gathering, the movements that refuse the E.U. and want to go back to a Europe of nations, free and sovereign countries. I'm here to re-educate.

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

At present, England, America, France, Italy, and Japan constitute the so-called 'Big Five.' Even with the rise of Germany and Soviet Russia, the world has only seven Powers. When China becomes strong, she can easily win first place in the Council of Nations.

A nation's people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world's nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!

Nous avons, il est vrai, nations corrompues, Aux peuples anciens des beautés incomnues..

Throughout all of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, nationalism was ascendant, and historians identified history with nations, rather than with cultures, religions, or ways of life.

The skirmishes of quadrille, she would say, reminded her of the petty ephemeral embroilments of the little Italian states, depicted by Machiavel ; perpetually changing postures and connexions ; bitter foes to-day, sugared darlings to-morrow ; kissing and scratching in a breath; — but the wars of whist were comparable to the long, steady, deep-rooted, rational, antipathies of the great French and English nations.

If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.