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Letter "N" » Nations
«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.»
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
| About:
Humanity,
Nations
| Keywords:
collectively, compensated, compensates, compensating, decadence, deficiencies, exceptional, exists, nations, nation state, point man, Point of, point of reference, reference, references, reference point, remainder, with reference to
«In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace»
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
| About:
Nations,
Politics
| Keywords:
declaration, hung, nurseries, nursery, palace, porch, porches, royal, The Americans, The Nursery
«In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.»
Author: Idi Amin Dada
(President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Death and dying,
Law and lawyers,
Nations
| Keywords:
Law and Order, sacrifices
«I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Church,
Humor,
Nations,
Separation
| Keywords:
church, Church and state, completely, favor, favoring, institutions, on their own, screw, screwing, screws, screw up, separation, state, such institutions
«If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Belief,
Nations,
Survival
| Keywords:
advocate, bolster, bolstering, represent, submit, The United Nations, United Nations
«If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell»
«If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Nations,
Race,
Racism,
War
| Keywords:
breeds, German, inferior, remove, shedding, the smallest, vermin
«It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Internet,
Life,
Nations
| Keywords:
babies, dungeons, explain, internet, The Internet
«In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
LED, persuasion, persuasions, reasoning, Republican, The Art of Reasoning
«If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Irony,
Nations
| Keywords:
ironies, irony
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