More quotations tagged with “nations”
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
—Abraham Flexner
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick