Council Quotes - Page 13

• World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

  George P. Shultz

  Country, Organization, People

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• India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

  Pratibha Patil

  India, Needs, World

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• Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Gay

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• The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.563, Modern Library

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• Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

  Aristotle

  Government, Law, Office

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3114, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Father, Grateful

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

  Gisela Stuart

  Views, Protection, Danger

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• Don't give up. Listen to others, but follow your own council.

  Mike Mayhall

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Giving

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• Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.

  John Adams

  Christian, Long, Miracle

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

  John Adams

  Political, Arbitrary, Fundamentals

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. November 13, 1815.

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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  Francis Bacon

  Execution, Blind, Danger

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• [Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

  John Gay

  Nurse, Gulliver, Cabinets

  "The 100 best novels, No 3 - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

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• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Sea, Giving

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• What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

  Philip Agee

  Agency, Decision, President

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• The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

  Jean-Claude Trichet

  Government, Texas, United States

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• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  E. B. White

  War, Lying, Men

  Common Cause: A Monthly Report of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution, Vol. I, No. 2, August 1947.

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• I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, America, Church

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness

  Ken Wilber

  Perfect, Facts, Depth

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

  George McGovern

  Government, Land, Cities

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• Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.

  Chris Barrie

  Military, Years, Climate

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make a difference in creating a sense of discipline, order and loving cooperation in the home.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Children, Home, Order

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• [When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

  Elizabeth I

  Anger, Leader

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• There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Cities, People

  Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (1996). “The Singing Sands”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

  Edward Jenks

  Stars, Character, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Privilege, Unfair, Members

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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