Motivational Quotes

Nations

There's always something fishy about the French.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Nations

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Burton, Pierre

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

Hope, Bob

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Forster, Edward M.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Jerrold, Douglas William

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.

Swayze, John

10.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

11.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

12.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

14.

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

15.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

17.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

18.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Bolt, Robert

19.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

20.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Sellar, W. C.

21.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

Herzen, Alexander

23.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

24.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

25.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

26.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

27.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

28.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Acheson, Dean

29.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Vico, Giambattista

30.

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

31.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]

Marx, Karl

32.

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

Churchill, Winston

34.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Goldman, Emma

35.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Hochhuth, Rolf

36.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Custine, Marquis De

37.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

39.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato

40.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Burke, Edmund

45.

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Kennedy, John F.

46.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Truman, Harry S

47.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

48.

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

49.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Weil, Simone

50.

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.

Edinborough, Arnold