Best habit & country Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.”

Ifs Men Country Next Simple Habit Killing Determined Protection Kill Me Assassination

Author:William Herndon

“Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.”

Men May Doe Country Home Age Virtue Wife He Man Habit Members Patriotism Urges Other Countries Obsolete Like Love Reformers Elementals Wives Love

Book:American ideals and other essays, social and political

Source: American ideals and other essays, social and political

“Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.”

Country Habit France Caution Once Upon A Time

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.”

Country Reason Habit Catholic Agree Productions Former Traveller Protestants

Book:A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes

Source: A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes

“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

World Country Might Cities Sky Genius Habit Concentration Stability Cities In The World Diffusion

Book:Leigh Hunt's Works

Source: Leigh Hunt's Works

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.”

Children Country Feelings Strong Nations United Common Conditions Habit Citizens Equal Institutions Unity Raised Equality Assimilation

Author:Frances Wright

“Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it”

Persons Country Hard Suffering Order Social Results Moral Poverty Habit Flow Accomplishment Artificial Stable Accumulation Coercion Social Order Disorganization

Author:David Brooks

“The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.”

People Firsts Country Used Rich Habit Mass Transformation Contrary Meat Prosperous Rich Countries

Author:Susan George

“Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.”

Country Young Revolution Habit Disease Towns Observation Dozen Modesty Vicious American Revolution Legislators Taverns

Author:John Adams

“Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.”

Two Country Reason Problem Term Poor Rich Planets Huge Habit West Climate Climate Change Incredibles Consumption Iniquity Poor Countries Rich Countries

Author:Bill McKibben

“Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.”

People Ifs Knows Years Mean Long Ends Self Country Enough Running Able Realizing Decision Know How Taken Generations Goes On Habit Hundred Forgotten Initiative Away From You

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The most obvious inspiration to be brave is that we all feel it: you can't have free expression right now in a very wide range of countries. It takes a lot of guts for writers and journalists in those countries to stand up against repression and do what they do. Russia is a case in point where, as you know, journalists have an embarrassing habit of being killed for their reporting.”

Country Inspiration Habit Brave Obvious Journalist Guts Embarrassing Be Brave

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.”

Knows Firsts Children Two Book Country Kids Reading Parent Steps Teacher Habit Encouragement Our Children Access Two Things Librarian Hoping For The Best Hope For The Future

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.”

People Way Country America Moving Poor Habit One Way Consumption Poor Countries

Author:Gary Bauer

“I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.”

World Country Reading Habit Population Newspapers Magazines Awe Other Countries Australian Reading Habits

Author:Felix Dennis

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

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