Asia Quote by Roberto Verzola

“The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law.…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”

— William Goldman

“It is a general truth that no one man holds an absolute right to rule over a country. As such, Seong Tang brought down…

— Heo Gyun

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality…

— Barbara Marciniak

“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all…

— Will Durant

“In fact, if a man is forced to resort to violence to achieve his ends, whether in his own household, his estates, or his…

— Sarah Woodbury

“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its…

— Roger Trinquier

“By the 1960’s, the authorities could write that peace was more important than law. Enforcement of international law was entrusted to the United Nations—whose…

— Jerry Pournelle

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with…

— Xi Jinping

“If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the…

— Hersch Lauterpacht

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

— Stanley Baldwin

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

— Mohamed ElBaradei