Top 767 Geneva Convention Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.

Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I have more folds than an origami convention.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.