Parliamentary Quotes - Page 2

• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  Vaclav Havel

  Civilization, People, Democracy

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.105, Routledge

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Opportunity, House, Criticism

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Desire

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

  Bill Shorten

  Disability, Ends, Parliament

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

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• The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

  Adolf Hitler

  Decision, Majority, Principles

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• The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Decision, Majority

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.161, Adolf Hitler

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• I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

  William Cobbett

  Views, Adoption, Political

  Political Register, March 15, 1806.

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• A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly pursuant to article 22 of the UN Charter, could start initially as a consultative body and gradually develop into a legislative assembly.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  World, Body, Assembly

  "'Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly'". newsarchive.ohchr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Real, Women, Government

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• When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Decision, Causes, Serious

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• Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not being democratic. In some countries regional leaders are appointed from the centre and in others they are elected. In Russia, the president is elected through direct secret ballot, and in the United States, the president is elected through a system of electoral colleges.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, College, Russia

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• Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Japan, Presidential

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

  Jason Kenney

  House, Fundamentals, Dismay

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

  Clara Zetkin

  Country, Party, Mean

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• We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Government, Presidential

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

  Ed Miliband

  Dad, Believe, Book

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Way, Election, Diets

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• In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, Class, Creating

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• A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.

  Sebastian Haffner

  Fall, History, Atmosphere

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• It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

  Khaleda Zia

  Patience, Practice, Impossible

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• ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Jobs, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

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• The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

  H. G. Wells

  Government, Genius, Action

  H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.41, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we have ignored it. Mrs. Clinton has ignored it, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama. The idea that they're attacking us because of our culture is insane. We are now waging a war against them culturally. We're trying to impose democracy, women's rights, parliamentary systems on a people who don't want it. They're going to fight that.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Fighting, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Home, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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