Indira Gandhi Quotes

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

We should be breaking down barriers not building walls. We're not going to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. You know, to be great, we can't be small. We can't lose what made America great in the first place.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

This country is being killed by people who try to break us down, tear us down and make us little when we have to be big.

Advance Australia

A Zeal for our Country is glorious, but a Spirit of Faction infamous

There were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it.

Each secession destroys the unity of a nation.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Disunion is the only alternative that is left us

There is, however, much to be said for the division of this great area [the Ruhr valley], as at present, rather than its union under a single state which would have, in war and peace, a practical monopoly of iron and steel on the Continent.

Every Irish person, good or bad, hates to see Ireland divided. But they differ profoundly as to how it should be united.

As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it's not going to stay together.

I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it's what can see us forward.