Nations Quotes

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

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?

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

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

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

If North Korea is allowed to maintain its nuclear weapons programs, other nations may well follow suit and some may buy such weapons from the North Koreans.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

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

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Above all nations is humanity.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.