“My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.” HeartCountrySoundJudgingMy HeartEarsTreatsOur CountryAcheReconciliationHatefulMindlessPartisanshipPolarizationHeart AcheDivisivenessMy Heart Aches Author:Tom Coburn
“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.” PeopleCountryTreats Book:The good word & other words Source: The good word & other words
“You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.” PeopleWayCountryShowsJudgingShotsTreatsPrisonerGuests Author:Donal Logue
“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” PeopleMenMayMadeWarCountryHandsGovernmentEarthFacesSpiritMotherFatherWaitingWhiteRaceSkyLandBrotherPrayingMen And WomenRainEarsTreatsSpotsChiefsIndianBloodyWoundedWhite ManGreat Spirit Author:Chief Joseph
“I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.” ThinkingYearsCountryReasonCareDiseaseTreatsDollarsSpendingHealth CareDietsLinkedAmerican Diet Author:Michael Pollan
“A country is known by the way it treats its animals” WayCountryAnimalKnownTreats Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.” PeopleCountryTreatsProsperityOld People Author:Nachman of Breslov
“Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.” PeopleGivingCountryProblemLawRiskCitizensTreatsTidesStemLicenseHivStigma Author:Shereen El Feki
“I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.” WorldWayWellsDifferentCountryFeltDealsTreatsAffectedDifferent Countries Author:PJ Harvey
“I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayCountryHelpingWould BeRealizingChanceImagineSecurityDiseaseTreatsDefeatHelping OthersStableImagine ThatTiedOther CountriesNational SecurityTerrificPolio Author:Laura Bush
“The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.” MenMeanLittlesWarCountryLawNationsGoalTermPayCitizensEqualTreatsImportanceAimProductionsPeacefulAdministrationMotiveLiberalismCooperationAggressionOwnershipFrontiersForeignersCoexistTribunals Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.” WellsDoeCountryGovernmentChallengesMediaCitizensTreatsDeterminedConventionsElitesPassiveIgnoredAffirmingPosingDissidents Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end. (Laughter) I'm more optimistic about the staying power of what's good in this country. But just because you have a wonderful spouse doesn't mean you should treat her badly. You have the feeling that some of the old virtues [that made this country great] are lessening. But there's so much good and so much strength left that I would not expect this country to suddenly founder.” KnowsShouldMeanLongMadeEndsCountryFeelingsLeftTermKnow HowVirtueWonderfulCivilizationLaughterTreatsRateOptimisticLong TermStayingFoundersSpouseEclipseStaying Power Author:Charlie Munger
“Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.” IfsMenWellsMaySaidCountryFactsAmericaEnemyDemocracyIdealsTreatsTragedyAimCurseOur SocietyIronRespectableVacuums Author:H. L. Mencken
“The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.” PeopleKnowsWorldWritingI CanCountryAmericaGamesAirYouthPrideLettersTreatsAngryAssumingSurpriseAthleteSavingPostsBotherOrganizedVehicleElsewhereFeathersBlogsBecause I CanCoveragePistolsOlympic GamesFrayNbcRufflesNational PrideSaving Up Author:James Fallows
“We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.” PeopleWayNeedsShouldFirstsWellsCountryHandsProcessPrinciplesClearPerspectiveSafeTreatsArrivalsAsylumsMigrantsOutdatedSortingRegistrationScrutinizeSorting Out Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.” MadeCountryActionDecisionLeaderGraceGainsTreatsSoldierIsraelTerroristCelebrateRelease Author:Jonathan S. Tobin
“I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.” FirstsDoeArtCountryStatesUseAbleUnitedCommonUnited StatesIntellectualTreatsClaimsInnovationPlantSeedsStealingInventionPhenomenonFarmersIndigenousPatentsPiracyCommon Knowledge Author:Vandana Shiva
“I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.” YearsBookCountryStatesAmericaJusticeUnitedUnited StatesWrittenSeeingCrimeTreatsVictimPrisonWorkersFollowingCriminalsImmigrantsIllegalFarmsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeMigrantsIllegal ImmigrantsCriminal Justice System Author:Eric Schlosser
“There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's the justification for that? Well, you know, I had eight million things to say about that, but he put it in such a sharp, excruciating way that it was just very hard to handle it effectively.” KnowsWayWellsDifferentCountryHardMillionsTreatsEightHandleJustificationStatutesHard To Handle Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense of identity and thinking. If they are stories rather than "truth," we can write new stories that better represent the country we aspire to be. Our new stories can be about diverse people working together to overcome challenges and make life better for all, about figuring out how to live sustainably on this one planet we share, and on deep respect for cooperation, fairness, and equity instead of promoting hyper-competitive individualism.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingCountryFactsHelpingStoriesTogetherChallengesShareIdentityPlanetsTreatsOvercomingHistoricalWorking TogetherCooperationIndividualismDiverseFairnessAspireRecognizingEquityPromotingHyperErodeHistorical Facts Author:Annie Leonard
“It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."” LongSaidImportantCountryReasonForgetLong TimeTreatsBitterTexasLong Time AgoMorrowNashvilleMusic Life Author:Cody Johnson
“Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.” WorldTryingSaidCountryGuyLevelsMediaTreatsWeightTradeJournalismPrizeAmbassadors Author:Bill Burr
“I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee issue, for example. He cannot disparage his colleagues in the EU either - that's not how we treat each other. We require solidarity: in refugee policies, just as in the financial architecture of the structural funds from which countries like Hungary have strongly profited from for years.” YearsCountryFactsIssuesPolicyExampleApproachTreatsFinancialCriticalArchitectureMinistersFundPrimePullingSolidarityColleaguesPrime MinisterRefugeeJointsHungaryOrbsHungarians Author:Martin Schulz
“America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.” ShouldCountryAmericaNationsDignityTreatsOur CountryImmigrantsDignity And Respect Author:Hillary Clinton
“Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.” WayCountryBodyBitsPowerfulSeaParticularReadySolutionsAreasTreatsInternationalNot SureCommerceArctic Author:Kofi Annan
“How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.” CountryTreatsBrethren Author:Abraham Verghese
“I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumansChildrenCountryReasonMotherRightsHealthDiseaseAspectTreatsHuman RightsOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareMemorableNurseNursingOverlookedBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.” WantShouldDifferentCountryTogetherLawCultureEnvironmentDevelopmentRespectTreatsRelationDemocraticInternationalWorking TogetherTeamworkCollaborationInternational RelationsRespecting OthersHarmoniousEmulateDifferent CulturesInterchange Author:Li Zhaoxing
“The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.” PeopleChildrenDifferentCountryEarthTogetherSpeakLanguageCommunityDifferencesSpaceFiveColorSkinsTreatsSevenMake SenseBoardsChild Of GodSpaceshipsSpace ShuttleDifferent Religions Author:Jake Garn
“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.” MenWarCountryGovernmentFatherWhiteSkyBrotherTreatsIndianNativeNative AmericanWhite ManNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative Country Author:Chief Joseph
“There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.” HumansRealCountryGrowthDemocracySecurityHealthDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseDignityTreatsCrisisInternationalPopulationSpreadSustainabilityNational SecurityNo HopeHuman DignitySustainable DevelopmentMalnutritionTacklingAssisting Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland