nations

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2866508	Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.	politics nations	Frank Herbert
8b04cfa	It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.	war nations starvation weaponry	T.H. White
849bb45	The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.	human-rights nations foundations revolt justice-system justification nation	Martin Luther King Jr.
a0365ac	Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.	mankind time man futility learning fallen-nations inevitability nations passing-of-time materialism knowledge	H. Rider Haggard
1fdc52f	The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression--rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties.	prejudice liberties neutrality states individuals nations ethnicity multiculturalism liberalism discrimination	Will Kymlicka
c6adf91	Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.	fate karma history politics geopolitics just-desserts nations determinism	Malcolm Lowry
4af353c	It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory	nations growth	Victor Hugo
5fe0d1b	To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is another kind of arrogance in the presumption that we may ever really build a faultless bridge from one shore to another, or even know where the mist has ceded to landfall.	world nations peace diplomacy	Barbara Kingsolver

2866508

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

politics nations

Frank Herbert

8b04cfa

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

war nations starvation weaponry

T.H. White

849bb45

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

human-rights nations foundations revolt justice-system justification nation

Martin Luther King Jr.

a0365ac

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

mankind time man futility learning fallen-nations inevitability nations passing-of-time materialism knowledge

H. Rider Haggard

1fdc52f

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression--rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties.

prejudice liberties neutrality states individuals nations ethnicity multiculturalism liberalism discrimination

Will Kymlicka

c6adf91

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

fate karma history politics geopolitics just-desserts nations determinism

Malcolm Lowry

4af353c

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

nations growth

Victor Hugo

5fe0d1b

To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is another kind of arrogance in the presumption that we may ever really build a faultless bridge from one shore to another, or even know where the mist has ceded to landfall.

world nations peace diplomacy

Barbara Kingsolver