Quotes About Nations

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Quirón había dicho en una ocasión que las naciones eran el invento más estúpido de los mortales.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

La única forma lógica de servir a la «fuerza» primigenia era mediante el «proceso». La idea consistía en contribuir a impulsar el proceso hasta el último objetivo de la fuerza: la homogeneidad cultural, política, social y económica de las naciones de la Tierra.

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

A few people -and a few chimpanzees- are just frankly antisocial. Presumably, such cases are the result of something going grievously wrong in a brain that has been built by a particular combination of genes and then submitted to a particular set of environmental pressures, so that it places almost everyone in an outgroup. When such individuals act alone, they are antisocial. But when they gain control over groups or even whole nations, they join the ranks of history's greatest villains.

The auric body of a snake is one of the most remarkable sights that the clairvoyant will ever see, and the secrets concealed within its aura demonstrate why the serpent is the symbol of wisdom among so many nations.

In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned upon the altars of countless nations. The fire of Zeus burned upon the Palatine Hill, the fire of Vesta upon the altar of the home, and the fire of aspiration upon the altar of the soul.   PART I   FIRE THE UNIVERSAL DEITY   Since the earliest times man has venerated the element of fire above all others.

Todas las naciones paganas han tenido y tienen no solo su religión oficial, sino también otra a la cual solo han podido acceder los filósofos elegidos.

dime por qué nuestras grandes naciones pueden enviar legiones de soldados a la guerra, pero son incapaces de hacer lo mismo cuando se trata de salvar los niños (...). Alguna cosa ha cambiado. Para mí vivir ya no es un derecho, se ha convertido en un privilegio

That project, the State Water Project, more than anything else, is the symbol of California's immense wealth, determination, and grandiose vision -- a demonstration that it can take its rightful place in the company of nations rather than mere states. It has also offered one of the country's foremost examples of socialism for the rich.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;

But to guide nations in the way of Truth By saving Doctrine, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet more knightly, this attracts the Soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part, That other o'er the body only reigns, And oft by force, which to a generous mind so reigning can be no sincere delight.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and moral questions, in the history of nations; and that your feelings, or my own, or anybody else's, at any particular moment, are of very little interest to me,--not from want of sympathy, but from the small proportion the individuality bears to the whole subject of my enquiry.

But individuals are not precise mirrors of their nations. And

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Sometimes it seems that the leaders of nations are little boys with chips on their shoulders, daring each other to knock them off.