Sovereignty Quotes

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, Government, Justice

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• The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Modern India, Want, Scripture

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• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  Salma Hayek

  Choices, Kingdoms, Different

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• It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world
  if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
  But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
  world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
  and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
  auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, Light

  "The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets". Book by William Caniano, 2007.

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• The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

  Albert Pike

  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Distinction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

  Walter E. Williams

  Democracy, Liberty, Mob Rule

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• To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

  Anwar Sadat

  Love Is, Community, Individuality

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• We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Long, Bully

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Essentials, Purpose, Should

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• Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

  Richard N. Haass

  Needs, Globalisation

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• What does it mean to feel "in control" of your life? What I mean by control is the ability to make a choice. Personal sovereignty means that you choose from what is available in order to be intentional about your life...When you feel in control of your life, you know yourself to be the author of your own actions and know that you always have choices.

  Polly Young-Eisendrath

  Mean, Order, Control Of Your Life

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

  Josiah Warren

  Liberty, Individual, Individual Liberty

  "Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society".

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• Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Patriotism, Matter, Violence

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• Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

  Bertrand Russell

  World Government, Survival, Possibility

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• What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, Insane, Poverty

  Source: progressive.org

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• Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.

  Josiah Warren

  Exercise, Men, Liberty

  "Equitable Commerce". Book by Josiah Warren, 1848.

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• Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Self, Add

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Government, Action

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ambition, Mean, Nuclear

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Self, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

  Paul Virilio

  Territory, Inherent, Territorial

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Rights, Government

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3250, Library of Alexandria

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• In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Mean, Age, Globalisation

  Jose Manuel Barroso's State of the European Union Speech, www.ibtimes.com. September 12, 2012.

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