A Quote by Kofi Annan

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

Kofi Annan

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Civilians Conflict Falls International International Law Law Military Occupation Population Protecting Responsibility Welfare

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Kofi Annan
Ghanaian - Statesman
April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018

Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

Uri Avnery

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Noam Chomsky

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

Tulsi Tanti

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Philip Pullman

The responsibility for keeping our commitments to veterans falls on the federal government.

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

Tom Carper

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

Khaled Mashal

Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

Erich Maria Remarque

There is no more important responsibility than protecting human health and the environment. It is a responsibility I take very seriously.

Andrew R. Wheeler

When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty.

Alberto Fernandez

Across society, the lion's share of caring responsibility - whether for children or elderly relatives - still falls on women.

Jo Swinson

There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

Juan Donoso Cortes

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

Howard Dean

If responsibility is not in the hands of the Iraqi government, then I consider the responsibility for this event lies with the occupation forces which should either leave immediately or according to a timetable.

Muqtada al Sadr

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Bill Janklow

But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.

Pope John Paul II

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