National Isolation Quotes

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

Germans are not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

Why entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?

Even oil wealth will not insulate a country from modernity forever.

What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don't know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

I have no confidence in the system of isolation. It does not answer in social life for individuals, nor in politics for nations. Man is a social animal.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.