Conventions Quotes

• The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

  Peter Singer

  Pentagon, Said, Prisoner

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• George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

  Bianca Jagger

  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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• The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Ties, Errors

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  Florence King

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Art, Enemy, Despise

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• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Transportation, Trade

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• You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

  Gustav Mahler

  Vanity, Renounce, Delusion

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• 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Years, Great Year

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• Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

  Brian Molko

  Gigs, Outsiders, Outcast

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

  Li Peng

  Support, Effort, Community

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Rejection, Adoption

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• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Diversity, Benefits, World

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, People, Criticism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

  Doubt, Atheism, Would Be

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

  Charles Schumer

  Soldier, Obsolete, Geneva

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• One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lying, Should Have, Deceit

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.cbsnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

  William Shatner

  Discovery, People, Want

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

  John Yoo

  Names, Numbers, Example

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  Emanuel Celler

  Heart, Men, Honest

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Decision

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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