Settlement Quotes - Page 7

• The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

  Goldwin Smith

  Scotland, Kingdoms, England

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, author by Hunter, Rose

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Agency, Civilized Nations, Might

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press

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• There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

  James K. Polk

  Independent, Oregon, California

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• Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Land, Should, Circumstances

  "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War". Book by Shabtai Teveth, p. 32, 1985.

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• We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mistake, Blessing, Growing

  "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister" by Sdeh Boker, Hebron.com, January 25, 1970.

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• The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Land, Mars, Earth

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

  John Hancock

  Country, Men, People

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• Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

  Joan Didion

  Beautiful, Vegas, Devotion

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.64, Zola Books

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• Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

  Criss Jami

  Internals, Visible

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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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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• Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Views, Differences, Mind

  1989 Freedom From Fear,'In Quest of Democracy'.

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Effort, Hull House

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.70, Hayes Barton Press

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• There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Roots

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• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Illumination

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.214, Penguin

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• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Law, Issues

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state.

  Tzipi Livni

  Israel, Land, Perspective

  "Open door: Misleading pullquotes" by Chris Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2011.

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• She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Lying, Paris

  Anne Sexton, “Oh”

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• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Land, Degrees, Development

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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• A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

  Jane Addams

  Passion, Opportunity, Joy

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

  William Bartram

  White, Borders, May

  William Bartram (1794). “Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida (etc.) 2nd Ed. - London, J. Johnson 1794”, p.20

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• I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Israel, Democracy

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• People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

  Daphne Guinness

  Divorce, People, Needs

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