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Nation Quotes

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Adam Smith
“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
Adam Smith, Correspondence of Adam Smith

Terry Pratchett
“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
Terry Pratchett, Nation

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

A.S. Byatt
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.”
A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden

Sero Khanzadyan
“Without the land there is no nation.”
Sero Khanzadyan

Albert Marrin
“By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.”
Albert Marrin, Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives

M.F. Moonzajer
“For enslaving a nation, just kill the conscientious people, the rest can be bought.”
M.F. Moonzajer

M.F. Moonzajer
“There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.”
M.F. Moonzajer

Tony Judt
“the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.”
Tony Judt, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

“Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.”
Lou Engle

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!”
Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: nation

“Doomed is a nation that puts a price tag on information and label it "education”
pfano percy rathogwa

M.F. Moonzajer
“We can’t build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry.”
M.F. Moonzajer

René Guénon
“No one can deny that the feudal wars, which were quite localized and subject moreover to restrictive regulation by the spiritual authority, were nothing compared to the national wars that have resulted, following the Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, in armed nations, and we have seen in our own day new developments hardly reassuring for the future.
By compelling all men indiscriminately lo take part in modern wars, the essential distinctions among the social functions are entirely ignored, this being moreover a logical consequence of 'egalitarianism'.”
René Guénon, Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power

Gonzalo Rodríguez García
“Ninguna nación puede sostenerse en ausencia de un horizonte histórico e identitario sobre sí misma.”
Gonzalo Rodríguez García, Hispanofilia: España frente a su destino

Gary North
“But a few of the heirs rail against the humanistic historians who have told the story of the new American nation: a “grand experiment� in which the God of the Bible was first formally and publicly abandoned by any Western nation. They have argued that there was no deception, that America is still a Christian nation, that the Constitution “in principle� was and remains a Christian document, and it is only the nefarious work of the U.S. Supreme Court and the American Civil Liberties Union that has stripped the Constitution of its original Christian character. There is no greater deception than one which continues to deceive the victims, over two centuries after the deed was done.”
Gary North, Conspiracy in Philadelphia

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“The most traitor person is the one who works against his nation.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Aegelis
“A nation is great when brothers and sisters of all backgrounds can live together as free citizens.”
Aegelis

Rebecca West
“There is not the smallest reason for confounding nationalism, which is the desire of a people to be itself, with imperialism, which is the desire of a people to prevent other peoples from being themselves.”
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

“Sometimes, even the smallest of wings can carry the weight of a nation.”
Dipti Dhakul

Ron Padgett
“Forgive your country every once in a while. If that's not possible, go to another one.”
Ron Padgett, How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide

“When one gives up on possibility or prospects of personal growth aligning with Nation’s, one tends to become coercive to attain growth OR destructive to bring the rest down including the Nation.”
Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

Bhuwan Thapaliya
“There is a part of every nation, religion, culture, tradition, and language inside us. We are the world.”
Bhuwan Thapaliya

Ezra Pound
“The glory of any nation is to produce art that can be exported without disgrace to its origin.”
Ezra Pound, Lettere 1907 - 1958.
tags: art, nation

Suchitra Vijayan
“Words are powerful, and they have the capacity to normalise hate. To call a human being illegal is not only racist and inaccurate, but also dehumanising. No human being is illegal. Existing is not illegal.”
Suchitra Vijayan, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

Suchitra Vijayan
“Pain is for the living; the dead are immune to the consequences of death.”
Suchitra Vijayan, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“A sleeping nation and occupied the one that keeps its intellectuals at home and puts its fools on the field.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Vishesh Panthi
“If you want to do something for the nation you should first improve yourself, every person should do this, the society will be like what we are.”
Vishesh Panthi

Vishesh Panthi
“The best and first thing we all can do for our nation is to improve ourselves and educate ourselves, every person can do this.

03/03/2025”
Vishesh Panthi