N Quotes
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“No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“No country can develop without science - it will be destroyed by its neighbors. Without arts and general culture, the country loses its capacity for self-criticism, begins to encourage faulty tendencies, starts to constantly spawn hypocrites and scum, develops consumerism and conceit in its citizens, and eventually again becomes a victim of its more sensible neighbors. Persecute bookworms all you like, prohibit science, and destroy art, but sooner or later you'll be forced to think better of it, and with much gnashing of teeth open the way for everything that is so hated by the power-hungry dullards and blockheads.”
Source: Hard to Be a God
“No country can develop without the education of its citizens.”
“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.”
“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”
“No Country Can Ever Unleash Its True Economic Potential Unless It Unleashes Automobile Adoption”
“No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.”
“No country can find its growth when its people welfare policies are only within its border”
“No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.”
“No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution”
“No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).”
“No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.”
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.”
“No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.”
“No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.”
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.”
“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.”
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
“No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.”
“No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.”
“No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.”
“No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.”
“No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.”
“No country is free unless it is democratic.”
“No country is greater than another, for each country has its strongholds as well as shortfalls.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
“No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.”
Source: A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky
“No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”
“No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.”
“No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal
“No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal
“No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.”
“No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.”
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”
“No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.”
“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3
“No country. is as harsh as the world.”
“No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.”
“No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.”
“No court can make time stand still.”
“No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!”
“No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear”
“No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.”
“No coward soul is mine.”