When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.
It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
I’m in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country.
Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.
And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....
I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.
America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!
People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
We need more upright citizens in this country. Everybody is just lying down as if asleep to the issues. And those who are up and moving are merely sleepwalking.
