Nations Quotes - Page 30

America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

Neil Postman

Communication, Taken, Two

Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.41, Penguin

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The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

Michael Parenti

Father, Hymns, Holy Days

Michael Parenti (1970). “The Anti-communist Impulse”

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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Muhammadu Buhari

Dream, Believe, Passion

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This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.

Woody Harrelson

Country, War, Grief

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When the brave men and women who serve our nation in uniform leave to deploy overseas, they dont just leave behind their family and friends, often times they leave behind jobs and livelihoods as well. After the sacrifices they have made, making sure that they have access to a good paying job to support their families when they return is the least we can do.

Tim Walz

Jobs, Sacrifice, Men

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American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

War, People, Fake

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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Communication, Ideas, Mind

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A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Education, Advice, Bayonets

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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Country, America, Folly

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I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Children, Echoes, Parent

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Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting, Matter, Actors

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Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Johnnetta B. Cole

Racism, People, Community

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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Willa Cather

Art, Cooking, Made

Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.146, U of Nebraska Press

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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jesus, Philosophy, People

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

George Bernard Shaw

Gentleman, Making Money, Prosperity

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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, Proud, Ancestry

Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suffering, Atrocities, Reign

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.70

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In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all.
A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.

Frederick Douglass

Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Equality

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Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Civilization, Individual, Dies

Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance, Pride, Thinking

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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As nations improve, so do their gods.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

Joseph Addison

Taken, Eye, Blessing

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114

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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

Party, Use, Politics

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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Alice Walker

Fighting, Race, Opinion

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