“The Nation belongs to everyone, not one or two specific people. The problems exist because we don't talk to each other and resolve them together. The problems arise from 'bloodthirstiness.'”

A television broadcast of King Bhumibol Adulyadej to Suchinda and Chamlong. (20 May 1992)
Source: [th:พระราชดำรัสพระราชทานแก่พลเอก สุจินดา คราประยูร และพลตรี จำลอง ศรีเมือง วันพุธที่ ๒๐ พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. ๒๕๓๕, A royal address given to General Suchinda Kraprayoon and Major General Chamlong Srimuang on Wednesday, 20 May 1992, th, http://kanchanapisek.or.th/speeches/1992/0520.th.html, 1999, 2013-12-07, Golden Jubilee Network]
Context: People can lose their minds when they resort to violence. Eventually, they don't know why they fight each other and what the problems they need to resolve are. They merely know that they must overcome each other and they must be the only winner. This no way leads to victory, but only danger. There will only be losers, only the losers. Those who confront each other will all be the losers. And the loser of the losers will be the Nation.... For what purpose are you telling yourself that you're the winner when you're standing upon the ruins and debris?

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Dec. 27, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The Nation belongs to everyone, not one or two specific people. The problems exist because we don't talk to each other …" by Bhumibol Adulyadej?
Bhumibol Adulyadej photo
Bhumibol Adulyadej 6
King of Thailand 1927–2016

Related quotes

Mark Manson photo

“The mark of an unhealthy relationship is two people who try to solve each other’s problems in order to feel good about themselves. Rather, a healthy relationship is when two people solve their own problems in order to feel good about each other.”

Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger

Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 8, “The Importance of Saying No” (pp. 177-178)

Ian Fleming photo
Meles Zenawi photo

“We believe the problem between ourselves and Eritrea will have to be resolved through dialogue, but it takes two to tango.”

Meles Zenawi (1955–2012) Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia

On the border dispute with Eritrea, as quoted in "Troop massing designed to send message to Eritrea- Ethiopian PM". Sudan Tribune. 19 March 2005.

Leonard Nimoy photo

“Whatever we are
We belong together
Wherever we are
We will find each other
Whoever we are
We are
Forever one.”

Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer

A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life

L. Ron Hubbard photo

“There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

Gerald Ford photo

“In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.”

Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)

Address at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 December 1971); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
1970s

Michael Marmot photo
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin photo

“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Variant: We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

Mark Kingwell photo

“Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.”

Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher

Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 4, Spaces And Dreams, p. 171

Related topics