Ceding Quotes
- Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
- I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this… — Cynthia Nixon
- There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy
- Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding… — Edward Snowden
- The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet
- Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and… — Rudy Giuliani