Nations Quotes - Page 34

• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  Olive Schreiner

  Way, Curse, Jew

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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• Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Judging, Bows

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Character, Men, Organization

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• The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Government, Risk, Church

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• No nation ever rises higher than its women.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Women, Higher, Men Women

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• The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Self, People, Challenges

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

  Margaret Walker

  Hate, Believe, Men

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

  Robert Kennedy

  Military, War, Book

  Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

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• There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

  Gloria Allred

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

  Mary Antin

  Bones, Refuse

  Mary Antin (1914). “They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration”

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• The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Succeed, Failing, United Nations

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• [On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Blood, Church, Loyal

  Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Police, Citizens, Used

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• My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Broken, Would Be

  "Kucinich's anti-war platform". "Crossfire" with Robert Novak, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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• A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Greatness, Men, Progress

  Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.235, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Afar, Orbit, Gazing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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• We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Contentment, Development, Republic

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• Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!

  Rosa Bonheur

  Girl, Children, Agriculture

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• I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?

  Eve Ensler

  Insecure, People, Focus

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.13, Villard

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Erosion

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

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• Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Despotism, Despicable

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• A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Recruit, Honour

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