N Quotes
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“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
“National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'”
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
Source: The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823
“National identity acts as a consumer lever to manipulate the emotions of the masses, for the purposes of power regulation and the fulfillment of agenda”
Source: Voice of Reason
“National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.”
“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
“National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.”
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
“National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.”
“National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.”
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services”
“National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.”
“National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.”
“National liberation is necessarily an act of culture”
“National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.”
“National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.”
“National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.”
“National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.”
“National Novel Writing Month introduces the element of competition in book writing and achieving high word count goals, wheras #Writestorm adds the much needed element of encouragement to writing with short term creative goals.”
Source: #Writestorm: How to Create a 100,000 Word Novel from Conception to Publication in Less Than One Year
“National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.”
“National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.”
“National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
“National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.”
“National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.”
“National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to the world we live in. Its all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies….people, plants and landscapes growing together, designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way.”
“National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.”
“National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.”
“National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.”
Source: Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty
“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“National Reserve (The Sonnet)
Every nation has its Netanyahu,
Somewhere they're called Trump,
Somewhere they are Recep Erdoğan,
Somewhere they are Meloni or Modi,
Somewhere they're called Imran Khan.
Thus Christ becomes a vessel of hate,
Koran is used to peddle division.
Saffron substitutes the color of blood,
Discrimination becomes the new tradition.
Somewhere they cut Islam from curriculum,
Somewhere they convert museum into mosque,
Somewhere they erase black history - it's all
part-n-parcel of the same nationalist muck.
Rip the mask of a nationalist patriot,
You'll find dormant a homicidal maniac.
Nationalism has no religion or ethnicity,
Only appearance changes, not the nut.
Beware of these nutjobs of nationalism,
selling you the jungle wrapped in tradition!
If you don't vote them off their throne asap,
they'll turn a free nation into reservation.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize.”
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”
Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
“National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.”
“National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.”
“National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.”
“National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.”
“National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.”
“National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.”
“National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.”
“National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.”
“National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.”
“National security is vital for economic and social progress.”
“National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.”
“National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state] face and what we have to do about it and if you can't articulate that as a candidate, you cannot be commander-in-chief.”
“National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.”
“National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.”
Source: I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years