Quotes
Quotes about Nation
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. â¢Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. â¢Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. â¢Gilda Radner Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.
This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
