International Legal Theory/international Relations

Famous quotes containing the words international relations, legal, theory and/or relations:

    “International relationships are ... preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “[Anarchism] is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality.... Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)