"I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all."

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Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

Mahathir Mohamad

#Given Quotes #Veto Quotes #United Nations Quotes

“I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.”
“A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”
“Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you....”
“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”
“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
“A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood”

Source : Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”
“Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.”

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