If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Quotes about declaring (16 Quotes)
Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .
Decisions of our will are often directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions. If we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we are apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.