Quotes and Sayings About Country
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Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country in Western Europe or in America can any longer adopt the idea of totally free movement of people. I t would simply overwhelm their social facilities, their societies and create migratory dynamics on the scales of tens and tens of millions of people. That simply is not practical.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
-- Zebulon Pike -
Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
-- Zechariah Chafee -
A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.
-- Zelda Popkin -
The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.
-- Zheng Bijian -
The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
-- Zhou Yu -
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
-- Ziauddin Yousafzai -
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
-- Ziggy Marley -
To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.
-- Zinedine Zidane -
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
-- Zinedine Zidane -
The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other countries along with their money. As a matter of fact, their wealth should be respected. All wealth in China belongs to the country.
-- Zong Qinghou -
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
-- Zong Qinghou -
I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?
-- Zosia Mamet