Quotes of: National-geographic Keyword

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Wilfred Burchett

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

William Gibson

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Will Rogers

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

William H. Seward

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

James Larkin

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Andie MacDowell

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

War

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Simone Weil

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Candide

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

Cipher

ISIS is not a mere criminal organization that spreads death wherever it went, it is rather a crisis of a nation.

Dismantling ISIS

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

British Bulldog

The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

Ban Ki-moon

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

Dayananda Saraswati