International Quotes - Page 33

• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Hydra, Monsters

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

  Shinzo Abe

  Important, Needs, Prosperity

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• Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Struggle, Important, Elements

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• Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Giving Up, Race, People

  "I. Milletlerarası Gençlik Kongresi" by Selçuk University, (p. 19), 1988.

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Artist, Culture, Talent

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 65, 1976.

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• I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Children, Law

  "Angelina Jolie Interview: Mama!". Interview with Sara Davidson, www.rd.com.

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• There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Mean, Long, Community

  Richard M. Nixon's speech on the October Crisis (October 1970) as quoted in Louis Fournier "F.L.Q: The Anatomy of an Underground movement" (p. 256), 1984.

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Iraq, Issues, Arrogance

  "The Price Of Arrogance". www.newsweek.com. May 05, 2004.

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• A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

  Ferdinand Foch

  War, Ideas, Political

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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• Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, United States, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.220, Verso

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• No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Government, Self, Principles

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.433, Nation Books

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• In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Revenge, Son

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• What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Class, Would Be

  "On the Opposition" by J. V. Stalin, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1974.

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• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  David Lee Roth

  Heart, Years, Broken

  "Diamond Dave hits the airwaves". Jay Lustig, The Star-Ledger, January 1, 2006.

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• I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

  Kofi Annan

  Iraq, Long, Support

  "Iraq war illegal, says Annan". BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2004.

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• There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

  Kofi Annan's Address, Presenting his Annual Report to General Assembly, www.un.org. September 20, 1999.

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• The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

  Kofi Annan

  People, Community, Humanity

  "Can Globalization Really Solve Our Problems?". Awake! Magazine, May 22, 2002.

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• In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Team, Littles, France

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• I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  War, Political, Chinese

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• I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Thinking, Europe, Forever

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• Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Comfort, Bullets

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its Director General. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the Director General has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Military, Expression, Wish

  "Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to IAEA and Director General". www.iaea.org. October 07, 2005.

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