Famous quotes containing the words nations, observer and/or mission:
“Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “Might.””
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)