Council Quotes
345 quotes by 279 authors
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are…
— Bob Beauprez
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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county…
— Jello Biafra
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
— Fidel Castro
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
— Chanakya
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We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making…
— Dick Cheney
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Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an…
— Mark W. Clark
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
— Germaine Greer
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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
— Horace
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.
— Flower A. Newhouse
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience…
— Martin Luther
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And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
— George Carey
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Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they…
— Frank Press
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with…
— Vladimir Putin
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One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which…
— Pope John Paul II
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If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers…
— David Rockefeller
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
— James Madison
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