Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Statesmen - Page 3

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Ambition never comes to an end.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.