Nations Quotes - Page 15

[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

History is the memory of a nation

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

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

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

France will always be a great nation.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.