Barack Obama Quotes

Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.

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

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

I loved my country, and I hated him.

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

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!