Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labele...
In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on...
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and ...
He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He t...
Sometimes the whole nation has to pay for the foolish deed of one man.
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
