1.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln
Nations do not perish from external forces; they succumb to inner corruption.
2.
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
Voltaire
4.
We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
Alfredo Stroessner
5.
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
Arnold Schoenberg
6.
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
Vladimir Putin
7.
Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
Giordano Bruno
9.
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
Jacob Needleman
10.
I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.
Parker J. Palmer
11.
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
Claude Bernard
12.
The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.
Lisa Gerrard
13.
The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.
Adolf Hitler
14.
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.
Orrin Woodward
15.
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.
Timothy Leary
16.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
Phylicia Rashad
17.
Become aware of internal,
subjective,
sub-verbal experiences,
so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
Abraham Maslow
18.
Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.
Bill Courtney
19.
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
David Eagleman
21.
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
Swami Vivekananda
22.
By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.
Isha Judd
23.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol
24.
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
Peter Mandelson
25.
The more that all of the external things began to materialize, the less the internal things began to crystallize.
Mike Huckabee
26.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
James Taylor
27.
There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.
Jonathan McReynolds
28.
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
Terry Eagleton
29.
You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.
Bill Johnson
30.
You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.
Robin Williams
31.
I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.
Diane Wilson
32.
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
Leo Buscaglia
33.
Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.
Thomas Leonard
35.
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.
Che Guevara
36.
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
Frank Herbert
37.
It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'
Paul Weller
38.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Chris Terrio
39.
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
Swami Vivekananda
40.
I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.
Chaka Khan
41.
The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."
Wayne Dyer
43.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
Paula Cole
45.
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
Charles Darwin
46.
I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.
Richard Ford
47.
We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.
Isha Judd
48.
If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.
Michelle Sagara
49.
It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Gloria Steinem
50.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
J. K. Rowling