#sovereignty

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#goodness #his #love #man #over

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. ↗

— Albert Pike

#liberty #over #self #sovereignty