Top 1200 Poor Nations Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors-"compassion" having become the province of the state.

Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.

We should work together to be of peace and happiness for all people in all nations.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the rich get depressed, The ugly get mad, the pretty get stressed. The ugly get violent, the pretty get gone, The old get stiff, the young get stepped on. Whoever told you that "it was all good" lied, So throw your fists up if you not satisfied.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being... [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

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

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.