Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry L. Stimson

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

George McGovern

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Hillary Clinton

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Harold Rosenberg

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Cat Stevens

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Homer

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Mary Roach

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

Mohammad Khatami

the policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

Hermann Hesse

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Henri Pirenne

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

Henri Pirenne

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

Jacob Bronowski

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Max Weber

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Plato

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

Jimmy Carter

The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

John C. Calhoun

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Saxby Chambliss

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Lily Tomlin

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Laura Bush

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Thomas Aquinas

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

Peter Eisenman

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

Kojo Annan

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

Kim Jong Il

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Henry Hazlitt

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Helmut Kohl

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.