Quotes About Sovereignty

A nation-state is a form of customary order, the byproduct of human neighborliness, shaped by an "invisible hand" from the countless agreements between people who speak the same language and live side by side. It results from compromises established after many conflicts, and expresses the slowly forming agreement among neighbors both to grant each other space and to protect that space as common territory.

Individuals in Western states are sovereign over their own households; they enjoy consumer sovereignty through the market and political sovereignty through elections.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

Every nation has a right to carve out its own happiness in its own way."25

He now subjected the Articles of Confederation to a searching critique. He thought the sovereignty of the states only enfeebled the union.

To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.

Standard might soon be in a position to eliminate their oil traffic at whim.

United Colonies of America.

Dutiful mapmakers drew lines and wrote India or Pakistan or Afghanistan, and the Pashtun smiled politely and went about their eternal business.

He can even use the bad things of life to bring about his ultimate purposes and ends. "That doesn't mean those things aren't bad—they really are bad. But they're all within the sovereignty of God. Even good can come out of evil.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I don't want to be anybody's prisoner. I want to be a Queen.

His absolute sovereignty means that I can trust Him with my tiniest doubt or with my most heart-wrenching fear.

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Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

There can never be complete agreement on international control and the administration of atomic energy or on general disarmament until there is a modification of the traditional concept of national sovereignty. For as long as atomic energy and armaments are considered a vital part of national security no nation will give more than lip service to international treaties.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

If free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don't they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?'8