Top 767 Geneva Convention Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.

Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't make fun of Romney for saying Russia was an existential enemy. He didn't have a hot mic exchange with a Russian President saying that he would be more flexible with the Russians after the elections.

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.