Famous quotes containing the words nations, community and/or radio:
“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to anotherand always into a better setthings might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the oceanthere is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
—Alexander Herzen (18121870)
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?Nono, tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
—Washington Irving (17831859)
“Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)