Council Quotes - Page 5

• Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Spiritual, Men, Leader

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• They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

  Richard Adams

  Fear, Not Afraid

  Richard Adams (1996). “Watership Down”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I have often said that we have two UNs; the UN that is a Secretariat, that implements the mandates handed over to it by the General Assembly and the Security Council, and the UN that is the member states who sit in the Council, take the decisions, hand over the mandates, or take decisions in the General Assembly.

  Kofi Annan

  Hands, Two, Decision

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• You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Fate, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

  Bill Ayers

  Independent, People, Humanity

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Religious, Military, Egypt

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Community, Ascent, Nouveau Riche

  Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press

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• If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cities, People, Chasing

  "Gwendoline Christie Awakens". Interview with Samuel L. Jackson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.

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• How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?

  William Hague

  Children, Long, People

  "Syria: UN to hear Arab League proposals - Tuesday 31 January", www.theguardian.com.

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• In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Long, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Ideas, Principles

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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

  Elliott Abrams

  Military, Blood, Economic Sanctions

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• Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Leader, Soul, Church

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• In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Book, Teaching, Land

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• When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Real, People, Focus

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• Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.

  Argus Hamilton

  Weather, Numbers, Immigration

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• In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  People, Together, Mormonism

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• There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Years, Effectiveness

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

  Raila Odinga

  Doe, Able, Revenue

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Conformity, Security

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• A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, Legitimacy, Peace And Security

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• When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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• We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].

  Kofi Annan

  Meaningful, Believe, Home

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• How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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