Country Quotes

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

America is a white man's country.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

I'm doing this for my family and my country.

Right now I’m inspired to fight for the honour of my country.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.