"The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security."

-- Maurice Strong

#Powerful Quotes #Yield Quotes #Community Quotes

“I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
“Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?”
“As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.”
“If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.”
“If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.”
“If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.”
“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”

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