#nations

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. ↗

— Black Elk

#first #known #men #nations #never

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#another #better #easier #furnished #future

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#being #country #despise #exponents #fulfill

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #been #conscientious #front #got

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #insanity #nations #parties

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#career #examinations #finally #found #i

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ↗

— Kofi Annan

#chart #course #decades #does #first

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#billion #continues #cost #dependence #each