Best soul & nations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.”

Giving Heart Doe Soul Desire Nations Adversity Oppressors Hearts Desire

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.”

World Two Soul Fighting Nations Consumption Consumerism Opposing Overconsumption

Author:Leonard Sweet

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

World Long Soul Ends Moments Age Nations Hours Sleep Powerful Steps India Awake Strokes Midnight Utterance India Independence Day Indian Independence Day

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.”

People Soul Body Spirit Nations Hills Patriotic Territory Valleys Patriot American Patriotic Great Patriotic New Territory Hills And Valleys Unfamiliar Territory

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.”

People Soul Done Certain Nations Shots Clean Hypocrisy Tragic Good Work Subconscious Deliberate Falseness

Author:Frantz Fanon

“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

Years Two Soul Facts Happens Hate Fighting Nations Taught Couple Thousand Ocean Years Ago Crosses Bridges Streams Continents Thousand Years Constructs Two Nations

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.”

Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.”

Humans Persons Ideas Soul Might Earth Nations Higher Immortality Human Soul

Book:Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

Source: Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

“The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”

Long Soul Enough Courses Nations Generations Findings Prophet Great Men Future Generation Tombs

Book:National Music: And Other Essays

Source: National Music: And Other Essays

“Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?”

People Thinking Real Soul Nations

Author:Robert E. Howard

“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”

Soul States Individual Nations Social Natural Class Blood Related Collectives Organs Nationality Social Class Cohesion

Author:A. C. Cuza

“Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.”

People Soul Character Nations Born Church Elements Shadow Catholic Traits Dominant Catholic Church Portugal Portuguese

Author:Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

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