Henri La Fontaine Quotes
Sad Quotes by Henri La Fontaine

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses
or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
- Henri La Fontaine

International institutions ought to be,
as the national ones in democratic countries,
established by the peoples and for the peoples.
- Henri La Fontaine

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a
country might have to undergo under the system which
we seek to establish here,
that country ought to do its duty.
- Henri La Fontaine

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show
the world that when one has the will one can succeed
in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand

All great peoples are conservative.
- Thomas Carlyle

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples -
in particular the United States of America -
fought so that we Germans could live in liberty.
That we should never forget.
- Horst Koehler

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the
songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
- Theodore Bikel

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth.
Through all of them runs, like a red thread,
the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
- Gustave Meyrink

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
- C. L. R. James

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured
only because they were told that their sufferings would
free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
- Arthur Henderson

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened,
struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
- Hideki Tojo

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that
we are building a fair Iraq,
a just state for all its peoples.
- Jalal Talabani

I think now, we in the international community are
belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali
peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
- Jan Egeland

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have
disastrous effects on our communities.
- Adam Rickitt

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner,
but I have not undertaken that practice myself.
- Rick Boucher

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler
and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so
mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
- Margaret Walker

New York is the meeting place of the peoples,
the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
- Djuna Barnes

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities;
artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
- Lascelles Abercrombie

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization
is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races
and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
- Aly Khan

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle.
This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il Sung

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize,
and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home,
they export it, in a certain way, by war;
they make it tour the world.
- Victor Cousin

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe;
militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
- Karl Liebknecht

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism.
This is still spreading, affecting new communities,
more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
- Emily Greene Balch

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve
the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
- Alexander Dubcek

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples,
I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
- Daniel Akaka

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30,
burried at 60.'
- Nicholas M. Butler

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing -
even in part -
our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
- A. B. Yehoshua

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity,
peace among peoples.
This is the sacred slogan of international socialist
democracy that liberates nations.
- Karl Liebknecht

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist
wish to unite the peoples under a social model.
- Laurent Fabius

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice
you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
- Ann Landers

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace,
which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
- Frank B. Kellogg

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion.
The idea that we want to see the world,
the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
- Joe Biden

I cannot lead you into battle.
I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else -
I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands
and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
- Elizabeth II

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies
do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages
in the course of development.
- Aung San Suu Kyi

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise
the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for
peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
- Aly Khan

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
- Ludwig von Mises

There are lots of nations in the world or national
peoples who don't yet have states.
They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.
- Michael Ignatieff

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other
peoples and other governments,
because we don't want them meddling in ours.
- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God
so as to teach these peoples;
even though some of them still look down on me.
- Saint Patrick

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human
energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the
peoples who have the courage to make it.
- Benito Mussolini

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed
to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.
We have a special commitment to the city.
- Tony Campolo

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
- Karl Liebknecht

Since President Bush took office in 2001,
this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy,
freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.
- Ginny B. Waite

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with
my educational message on snake bites,
how to get in around venomous anything.
- Steve Irwin

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards,
I'm a virtuoso.
- Robert Quine

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples,
there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate,
of not being pure enough.
- Jessica Hagedorn

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of
being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
- Dennis Banks

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples
almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
- Nguyen Cao Ky

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains
and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have
enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
- Li Peng

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives
them the right to subjugate other races,
nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
- Ludwig von Mises

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives,
but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples
are struggling for the same piece of land.
- Jack Schwartz

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the
science of human relationships -
the ability of all peoples,
of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole
peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
- John Raleigh Mott

The great social adventure of America is no longer
the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
- Walter Lippmann

I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations,
nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development
of our democratic order will be successful.
- Girma Woldegiorgis

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict,
the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people -
are ahead of their leaderships.
- Amos Oz

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature
as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the
great peoples of the earth.
- Edward Dahlberg

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear,
song passes not away.
- William Watson

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural
habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals.
They are two separate worlds.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance;
they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
- George Washington

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives,
and sometimes that's very gratifying.
But still, there's this little voice that says you
should be doing something that matters.
- Blythe Danner

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction
after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
- Brian Perkins

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves -
strong,
powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of
giving us escape from our mundane existence.
- Pam Brown

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land,
but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together
like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link.
It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
- Aristide Briand

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples
and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time -
at long last -
be established and maintained.
- Cordell Hull

The nature of peoples is first crude,
then severe, then benign, then delicate,
finally dissolute.
- Giambattista Vico

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples,
he needs such murders and such sacrifices.
- Julius Streicher

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect
for peoples without prejudice,
and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples,
equally, and free of threats.
- Hideki Tojo