Quotes on the topic: Nations


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All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.


The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.


All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.


I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.


I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.


I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.


Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.


One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.


The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.


The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.


Developing nations want to become developed nations.


I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.


Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.


Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.


The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.


On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.


The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.


After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.


Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.


When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.