Council Quotes - Page 16

• I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Gay, Keys

  "G20: Russia says it will consider Syria military action but needs more proof". "AM", www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2013.

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• Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [....] the World Council of Churches [.....] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [.....] the International Monetary Fund [.....] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [.....] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.

  Kent Hovind

  Rome, Order, Church

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• Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Nuclear, Argument, Iranian

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• As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

  William Wycherley

  Action, Wit, Hard

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.18

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• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Father, Important, Scripture

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses”

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• Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Matter, Speak

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• For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.

  Susan Brigden

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

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• There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

  Ken Livingstone

  Needs, London, Desperate

  Socialist Organiser, March 1979.

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• The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

  J. N. Andrews

  Jesus, Nice, Son

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• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
  [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Cautious, Severe

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• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  Van Jones

  School, Government, Cities

  Source: aalbc.com

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• These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, America, Goal

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• We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

  Alex J. Morrison

  Vacation, Hands, Resolution

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• Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

  Martin Schulz

  Europe, Want, Economy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."

  Pope Paul VI

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Attitude, Fall, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

  Homer

  Kings, Honor, Proud

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• If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.

  John Bolton

  Real, Reflection, Distribution Of Power

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• I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

  Robert Davi

  World, Assembly, China

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski,

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• You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.

  Norman Angell

  Real, War, Giving

  "Union of Democratic Control". spartacus-educational.com. October 10, 1916.

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• My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

  Jacques Delors

  Should Have, Europe, Political

  "Delors: Inside the House that Jacques Built". Book by Charles Grant, 1994.

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• Now we characterise Russian-Chinese relations as a strategic partnership, even a special strategic partnership. We have never had such a level of trust with China before. China is our major trade and economic partner among foreign states. We implement joint multi-billion projects. We cooperate not only within the UN Security Council, which is logical, as both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, but also within such regional organisations as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS, etc.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  Fidel Castro

  President, Accepting, States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Believe, Agreement

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