Thus, it is either necessary to switch the entire cultural process from top to bottom to the Ukrainian language, or to be consistent and end Ukrainian literature and not put writers in a terrible, unenviable, difficult situation, which probably has no equal anywhere in the world, in any nation , which respects itself, and a government that respects its people.
The national epic is the embodiment of the historical memory of the people.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
A nation that does not know its history is a nation of the blind.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The entire history of relations between Moscow and Ukraine for more than 250 years, since the union of these two states, is a systematic, reckless, shameless, brazen destruction of the Ukrainian nation by all means, even to the point of erasing every trace of it, so that not even its name remains.
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
—Thomas Jefferson
A nation without statehood is a crippled human collective organism.
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.
—Leo Tolstoy
It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.
—Leo Tolstoy
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
There’s nothing wrong with loving your family or your nation, and this happens with everyone. But it’s only harmless as long as you do no evil to others because of your love for your family or nation.
—Leo Tolstoy
One of humanity’s most dangerous superstitions is the belief that a large group of people, sometimes millions, can call themselves people of a single nation or a single state. People kill and rob each other because of this superstition.
—Leo Tolstoy
My unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
—Leo Tolstoy
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
—Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
—Henry Ford
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
—Henry David Thoreau
These men would barter comfort for greatness. In their vain reveries they forget that a nation consists of individuals, and that true national prosperity is no other than the multiplication of particular happiness.
—William Wilberforce
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
—Sun Tzu
Only a selfish moron who holds the title of a prince goes on national tv promoting the use of psychedelics and drug use knowing the younger audience will eat it up.
Truth is the most sovereign ingredient for curing the nation and church.
Christopher Love
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt