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)

    “Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
    —Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)

    “When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)