#nations

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#interests #nations #over #policy #said

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#before #being #good #got #make

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#comparison #dreams #imaginations #reality #seems

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ↗

— David Friedman

#any #children #direct #employed #force

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#border #cannot #companies #complicity #enforce

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#believe #ever #nations #races #ready

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #churches #civilized #civilized world #death

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans