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Quotes About Declarations

the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace," Debs said. "It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace.
~ Jon Meacham
Every secret told, every declaration made, is a boundary crossed, a step taken into unknown country that can never be unstepped, never reversed, never erased.
~ Aidan Chambers
Very strong declarations were made by those countries who are most responsible for global warming... the United States and China, which undertook commitments towards changing the situation.
~ Francois Hollande
Taking turns, they exchanged tales quickly, the haste in their voices sometimes blurring the words, for greater than their desire to be heard was the hunger to tell. One could hear it in the fervor of the declarations, the obscenities shouted when something could not be remembered fast enough, when a stutter allowed another speaker to race into his account without the stutterer having completed his.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.
~ Margo Jefferson
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
~ Pierce Brosnan
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense --- words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions --- words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 7, sentences 3 - 10
~ Libba Bray
the yamas and niyamas are actually emphatic declarations of what we are when we are connected to our true nature.4 The yamas, or "outer observances," and the niyamas, or "inner observances," are often referred to as the inner and outer "restraints.
~ Donna Farhi
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
~ Edmund Burke
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I am growing to hate the vague declarations of psychiatric treatment, the airy cross-your-fingers pronouncements. The treatment of mental health is an inexact science. But, as I am slowly coming to understand, depression is an inexact illness.
~ Sally Brampton
We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.
~ Sigmund Freud
If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.
~ John Piper
The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.
~ Elyse Fitzpatrick
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.
~ Ayn Rand
declarations and clearance documents
~ Steve Martini
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
~ William Henry Ashley
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
The gold of her promise has never been mined Her borders of justice not clearly defined Her crops of abundance the fruit and the grain Have not fed the hungry nor eased that deep pain Her proud declarations are leaves on the wind Her southern exposure black death did befriend Discover this country dead centuries cry Erect noble tablets where none can decry She kills her bright future and rapes for a sou Then entraps her children with legends untrue I beg you Discover this country from America
~ Maya Angelou
We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.
~ Jude Deveraux
bubbles rose over the Champagne Orchestra and Lawrence Welk came onstage salaaming in every direction, crying out declarations of humility in his unctuous, brain-scalding Swedish kazoo of a voice.
~ Tobias Wolff
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
~ Cassandra Clare
Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?
~ Ari Fleischer