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Sustainable prosperity and stability of the nations in the Middle East cannot be realized without re-engineering their state models to more open socioeconomic systems allowing equal access to national resources and opportunities instead of the current closed systems based on tribal, ethnic, and religious quotas – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. – George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004	added by anonymous 13 years ago
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban	added by anonymous 13 years ago
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. – President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling. – Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. – Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. – Charles A. Lindbergh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. – Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year? – Peter Ustinov	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites... – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. – George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. – Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American. – Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. – Sylvia Levi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. – Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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