“Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.” HappensChristianJesusNationsDifferencesAcceptingModelsCommittedHeritageObserversChristian Heritage Author:Philip Yancey
“Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.” ShouldDesireNationsCompassionStudySacrificeModelsIdealsProsperityFortitudeReinsGreat WomenIdeal Life Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.” MenWorldHas BeensAmericaForceNationsRolesEconomyGenerationsMankindCenturyMilitaryModelsAlliesRole ModelsTwentieth CenturyAdversariesSuperpowerHumblingMilitary Force Author:Eric Shinseki
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.” BelieveHas BeensMadeGivenNationsWishChanceMillionsModelsWinePatternsChiefsAssimilation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.” IfsNationsModelsIndiaVillageGovernanceBlueprintsMps Author:Narendra Modi
“Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians believe that Jesus died so we may live. He took upon himself our sins so that we may be forgiven and thereby gave us a model of forgiveness for others. This is a cycle that allows civility and progress in the face of man's faults and imperfectability.” MenBelieveHeartMayChristianFacesLyingJesusNationsSinChristianityProgressModelsEssenceDiedFaultsCyclesForgivenCivilityChristian Faith Author:Cory Bernardi
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.” PeopleIfsHouseNationsPoorMoneyRolesRichCrazyModelsCatFortuneGreedNewspapersMagazinesPretendingRole ModelsNutsCashApartmentRichnessCeilingsTrailersHoardingPathologyStacking Author:Lester B. Pearson
“In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future.” WorldGivingTogetherSpiritualMovingIndividualNationsViewsCompanyMaterialsBirthModelsNew WorldCollapseGiving BirthPositive ChangeNew Future Author:Shari Arison
“Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be intrigued by what Australia is doing.” WorldShouldSeemsChoicesNationsUnitedMoralRight NowTaxesModelsDevelopingCanadaAustraliaPullingCarbonCoalUnited NationsIntriguedMoral ChoicesRepealingCarbon Tax Author:Marc Morano
“In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.” IfsHas BeensBookStatesFactsMovingPoliticalNationsModelsIslamAwakeningContemporaryIdeologyAlternativesNot Sure Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.” ThinkingCoursesNationsBenefitsModelsTradeEnormousOpennessFree Market Author:Enrique Pena Nieto
“Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!” WayDifferentWholeTogetherAmericaNationsEffortWonderfulIdentityModelsBackgroundsInstanceDifferent WaysDifferent BackgroundsNational IdentityHomogeneityMilkshakes Author:Kabir Bedi
“I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.” StillsShowsAmericaNationsPayRolesTeachTeacherStudentsProtectBenefitsModelsAppreciationGrantsRole ModelsLoanSalaryFundingStudent Loan Author:Solomon Ortiz
“I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.” WholeNationsUnitedFrontsModelsGet UpUnited NationsConferencesCheatedI Cheated Author:Romola Garai