Sovereignty Quotes - Page 17

• Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Evil, Lust

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• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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• All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

  John Bingham

  Law, Land, Parent

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• Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Soul, Rivals

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.82

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• The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

  Julian Huxley

  Government, Years, Organization

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• The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

  John Piper

  Invincible, Sovereignty Of God, Boldness

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.64, SPCK

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• The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Country, Integrity, Rights

  "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.

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• States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

  Richard N. Haass

  Wise, Order, Would Be

  "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Believe, Home, Goal

  "The Impact of Israel’s Internal Politics" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

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• During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Men, Class, Long

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• The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Development, Groups, Promotion

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• Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

  Richard N. Haass

  States, Ifs, Globalisation

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• Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

  Robert Ringer

  Rights, Liberty, Doe

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• You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the same time to create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks

  Luc Delahaye

  Real, Thinking, Order

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• God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Profound, Saint

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• What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

  Michael Lewis

  League, Might, Saws

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• Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Offended You, Views

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• The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Heart, Rocks, Hands

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• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

  David Cameron

  Character, Independent, Emotional

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• I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Believe, Faces, Interdependence

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• Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Fate, Economic

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• Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Character, Purpose, Sovereign

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• Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

  Judith Butler

  Law, Names, Population

  Judith Butler (2006). “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, p.55, Verso

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• If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

  Mark Driscoll

  Heart, Want, Flow

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Love Is, Expression

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.105, Tyndale House

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