For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people,... his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes...then...Israel will be...come a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these sta...tutes, will say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to your word; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou has...t prepared in the presence of all peoples, light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to thy people Israel."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in--telephonic, technolo...gical and relational--to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine whic...h has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war wi...ll bear an objective examination of its merits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismis...s names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity--their links with their dead and the unborn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »