#mobilize

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#governments #invent #mobilize #need #order

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us. ↗

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#being #brazil #desire #enthusiasm #expressed

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#between #born #combination #contradiction #first

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#achievements #cannot #direction #done #great

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#collection #everywhere #eye #generalizations #mobilize

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#lasting #lasting peace #let us #long #mankind

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ask #asking #austria #austrian #been

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ↗

— Edward S. Herman

#business community #community #consent #domestic #easy

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#awaken #capacities #difficulties #existence #i

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#better #case #claims #economic #economic forces