Charter Quotes

Charter Quote of the day

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Become a Canadian for the Great Bear by signing our charter online – join the team today to speak out for a sustainable future for the Great Bear region.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.