Commonwealth Quotes

118 quotes by 101 authors

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the… — David Miliband
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can… — Johann Most
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and… — Robert Mugabe
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over… — Lucy Powell
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all… — Kevin Rudd
Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government. — Jay Weatherill
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels… — Cesar Chavez
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social… — Wendell Berry
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot… — Wendell Berry
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or… — Alan Bennett
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. — Thomas Jefferson
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. — Russell Kirk
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till… — William Shakespeare
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,… — Winston Churchill
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. — Sam Keen
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen. — Danielle de Niese
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change… — Charlie Pierce
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is… — Charlie Pierce
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to… — Tom Stoppard

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