Quotes
Quotes about Nation
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.
Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.
'Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit. - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.
And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.
When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's, the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of the first distinction.
While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
An idea is salvation by imagination.
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]
