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)

    “Lucretius
    Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
    smiling carves dreams, bright cells
    Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market.
    He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)