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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people. — Henry A. Kissinger

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God — Jerome K. Jerome

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — L.M. Montgomery

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived. — Paul Samuelson

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations. — Will Herberg

Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte

If we don't establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. — Sunday Adelaja

The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom. — M.F. Moonzajer

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. — Benjamin Disraeli

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny The Elder

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Your outlook affects your outcome — John Paul Warren

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations. — William E. Gladstone

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. — Orison Swett Marden

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man. — Vladimir Makarov

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. — Sinead O'Connor

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. — Jose Clemente Orozco

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists. — John Piper

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A.J.P. Taylor

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. — Mahatma Gandhi

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest. — Tony Blair

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. — Richard M. Nixon

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. — Jose Rizal

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars. — Norman Hartley

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today. — Jerry Hannah

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. — Thomas Jefferson

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations. — Al Gore

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations. — Alec-Tweedie

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

Nations die first in the big cities. — Austin O'Malley

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed — Isaac Deutscher

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. — Niall Ferguson

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity — Irving Fisher

The purpose of the gospel proclamation is to cultivate obedient allegiance to Jesus the king among the nations (cf. Rom. 15:18). — Matthew W. Bates

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. — Henry W. Kendall

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat. — Kelly Miller

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders. — Roland Emmerich

You may have your diploma from a seminary, ordained by a Bishop, or commissioned by a denomination but ONLY God can "mark" a man. — John Paul Warren

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed. — David Icke

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations — Thomas Hughes

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble. — Harry S. Truman

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. — P. J. O'Rourke

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. — Georges Pompidou

We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations. — Vishal Chipkar

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. — John Paul Warren

Make disciples of all the nations in my Name. — Eusebius

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to. — Henry David Thoreau

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. — Julius Nyerere

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. — George Shultz

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! — John Paul Warren

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. — Sholem Asch

Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. — Lord Chesterfield

Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe. — Bill Bryson

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue. — Edward Gibbon

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. — Francis James Grimke

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world. — Hillary Clinton

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David M. Friedman

Live as temporal, serve as eternal — John Paul Warren

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. — Eileen Claussen

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning. — Colin S. Smith

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nuclear wars are simply too dangerous to fight, so it is economic might that will largely determine the destiny of nations. — Anonymous

The recognition by a people that their prosperity depends on the breadth and depth of their innovative activity is of huge importance. Nations unaware — Edmund S. Phelps

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. — Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. — Giacomo Leopardi

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations. — Imran Khan

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon