Antiwar Quote by Kofi Annan Download Open image “The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.” — Kofi Annan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antiwar Charter Illegal Invasion Iraq War
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for… — David Cortright Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
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