#nations

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists. ↗

— Steve Vai

#albums #artists #attain #commitment #customers

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#contrary #diverse #doubt #ends #had

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#campaign #combinations #decided #electoral #outcome

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ↗

— George Washington

#all nations #cultivate #faith #good #good faith

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#among #athletic #been #believed #competition

Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or the Pentecostals, the Methodists or the Presbyterians have to say to the rest of us out of their DIFFERENCES, as well as out of the affirmation in common with other Christians? As I suggested earlier, our patterns of ecumenicity tend to bracket out our differences rather than to celebrate and capitalize upon them. Finding common ground has been the necessary first step in ecumenical relations and activity. But the next step is to acknowledge and enjoy what God has done elsewhere in the Body of Christ. And if at the congregational level we are willing to say, 'I can't do everything myself, for I am an ear: I must consult with a hand or an eye on this matter,' I suggest that we do the same among whole traditions. If we do not regularly and programmatically consult with each other, we are tacitly claiming that we have no need of each other, and that all the truth, beauty, and goodness we need has been vouchsafed to us by God already. Not only is such an attitude problematic in terms of our flourishing, as I have asserted, but in this context now we must recognize how useless a picture this presents to the rest of society. Baptists, Presbyterians, and Roman Catholics failing to celebrate diversity provide no positive examples to societies trying to understand how to celebrate diversity on larger scales. ↗

— John G. Stackhouse Jr.

#christian-tradition #church #denominations #diversity #ecumenism

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#fragile #instrument #less #making #nations

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

#beginning #charter #drafting #followed #lot

Nations, like men, have their infancy. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#like #men #nations #their

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them. ↗

— John Fisher

#nations #peace #suits #them #want