"Nations" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

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

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

Benazir Bhutto

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Irving Babbitt

Failure

Nations

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.