Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Aldous Huxley

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Albert Einstein

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Albert Einstein

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

Albert Einstein

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information...

Albert Einstein

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

Albert Einstein

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

Albert Einstein

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Albert Einstein

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

We'd like to think we have a rule of law and not a rule of special interests in this country.

We were all so scared and counting hours for daylight to come on Monday.

We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,

We were a little county when I first took over and now we are a big player in California,

E. O. Wilson

We depend on (Wilson) a lot. If we keep her in the ballgame, she's a big key for us. If someone makes a mistake, they're counting on her to get the rebound or the block.

We don't know yet about Europe; it will go country by country and will depend on the reception in the U.S..

Haley Barbour

We don't know how many fatalities there are. The official count is really meaningless.

We worked with Dianne for years before we knew of her association with the bombing. We were all elementary school principals together in Prince George's County in Maryland.

We want to help you get better ... in hopes that the country is going to get strong again.

Jim Wright

We want to help lead the country and the world into the hydrogen economy.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are always in countries at the pleasure of the host country, ... How it will evolve in the future is up to the Saudis.

Wyandotte County Lake was stocked with 11,000 pounds of trout.

Abel Ferrara

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Abigail Adams

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Aberjhani

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

A. J. Liebling

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

A. J. P. Taylor

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

A. J. P. Taylor

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

Aamir Khan

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

A. R. Rahman

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

Richard Mourdock

People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.