Nation Building Quotes

“Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.”
― Al Franken

“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.”
― Jamsetji Tata

“Science, arts, music, innovation, that's how you serve a nation. There is no greater dipsomaniac profession, than militarist infestation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the highest form of defense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“With such foundations a kingdom must in time sway and fall.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“A civilized world is not where everybody flocks to another nation to fulfill their dream, but where everybody can pursue their dream without feeling the need to become an immigrant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“When youth rise with purpose, the world bends towards progress.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“If immigrants ain't real Americans,
Neither is our revered Lady Liberty.
She too came from a distant land,
Yet today she is the American epitome...
Though I belong to the whole wide world,
Land of Lady Liberty is my home country.
A nation's character isn't defined by rigidity,
It is defined by a hearty unity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“A government's first duty to its citizens, is to provide a fully functional welfare state. Welfare state ought to be the first refuge, not the last resort. A thriving welfare state produces ambitious citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“A 20 watt brain electrifies the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Educate your children never to serve your nation; to serve the nation makes monkey out of human, killing on the basis of nationality and religion. If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“If you wanna serve your nation, serve through science, serve through art, serve through music, literature, industry, but never through military.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You cannot build new social circuits, without blowing a few fuses.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“By 2075, nations will not compete on prayers, they will compete on patents”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“Your children will not eat because you fasted; they will eat because you built something people will pay for.”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“Poverty is not a demon, it is ignorance”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“We treat underdevelopment like witchcraft instead of bad planning”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“It is a tragedy in Africa that we have many prayer meetings, but no thinking meetings.”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“The nations that build machines will own the nations that kneel for miracles”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“The slavery of the future will not come with chains, but with dependence”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“The victors of the 21st century will not be those who prayed the loudest, but those who thought the hardest”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“If we do not build, we will beg. If we do not think, we will sink. If we do not rise, we will rot.”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“This is the hour of machines. Let Africa either master them—or become a museum of wasted potential”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“Jesus Christ hasn’t changed! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This reality, when it becomes our hunger, will lead us into mighty realities of awesome manifestations of supernatural salvation, healing, deliverance, revival, church growth, multiplication, and societal entrance into God’s glory.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Once a community has been identified as the remainder minority in the nation’s foundational myth, it is futile to expect the state to undo that designation. The state always requires a remainder — someone to complete its story of belonging by embodying exclusion. And it takes immense institutional effort to construct, legitimize, and stabilize that category. Once achieved, it is rarely relinquished. Even if governments change, the structure remains: the new regime will continue to press the same community deeper into the remainder mould — unless it discovers another group that can inhabit that role more conveniently, more profitably, and with less resistance. The myth must always have its remainder; without it, the nation would lose its border, its coherence, and its illusion of purity.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan