Giuliano Amato famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
-- Giuliano Amato

#Calling #Constitution #Good Things
In Europe one needs to act â€˜as ifâ€™ â€“ as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty â€¦ The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.
-- Giuliano Amato

#Government #Order #Europe
The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.
-- Giuliano Amato

#Generations
In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.
-- Giuliano Amato

#Government #Order #Europe

The idea of â€˜calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

Giuliano Amato famous quotes

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